Hacker News Reader

But machine learning! Neural nets! Artificial intelligence!

All words that have meaning that becomes diluted in public perception, and lead to things sort of becoming a "black box", where we don't really know how the models actually do what they do.

View on HN

Most machine learning models get it right only in 80% to 90% of cases. So if you have millions of users each with thousands of pictures, you can see how often you run into problems. Even with 99% accuracy, the amount of errors is enormous.

And each of those errors leads to a SWAT team breaching your front door at 4 AM and pointing rifles at your family.

That's not how it works at all.

When the internet was first rolled out to the masses everyone took a basic thing and put "on the internet" after it to make the dotCom bubble

Seems history it repeating itself with "Artificial intelligence" with all things done by a computer...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com