I received this thoughtful, and may I say highly accurate, email from reader EN, which I include in full below. I removed the age and name to protect EN’s identity. I also […]
Researcher In AI Responds To Criticisms
Notes On AI Accuracy (Facial Recognition)
Here’s a tweet (addressed to Judea Pearl), “If you could get rid of all the spurious non causal correlations in a machine-learning model, you would be left with only the invariant ones […]
Statistics Vs. Artificial Intelligence
Who made this? ??…??…?? pic.twitter.com/TgTiYBpMMy — Drew Conway (@drewconway) June 22, 2018 This meme which heads today’s post (see discussion under this tweet a modification of an original cartoon) expresses the true […]
Another Proof Statistics Cannot Discover Cause
We discussed this before, but since it has come up recently in personal discussions, I wanted to offer this clarification. Suppose we’re in a standard epidemiological situation, or even a planned experiment, […]
Amazon’s AI Proves Men Better Than Women At Tech Jobs
Item Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women (Thanks to Mark Charters for the tip.) Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine […]
Another AI Exaggeration: It Can Say Why There Is Religious Conflict
Dear reader, though you won’t believe it, there is such a thing as the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. When you search its name, Google shows you this: The Journal […]
Judea Pearl Is Wrong On AI Identifying Causality, But Right That AI Is Nothing But Curve Fitting
Yep I’ve disagreed with Judea Pearl before on causality, and I do so again below; but first some areas of agreement. Some deep agreement at that. Pearl has a new book out […]
Researchers Forced To Teach Algorithms To Reject Hate Facts
As we learned before, hate facts “are true statements about reality that our elites demand remain occult and unuttered.” The problem is that hate facts will routinely pop up in statistical (a.k.a. […]
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