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Making computer science more humane at Carnegie Mellon

The Stack Overflow Podcast

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The Importance of Formalism in AI Design

The real challenge is to look much more deeply into the technical aspects. What does it mean really in terms of the design of an architecture or a training schedule, etc., setting parameters and so forth? So can we say things that are much more formal? Can we develop things that have some theoretical aspects? Let me give you one example. One of our faculty member, Ni Har Shah, looks at one particular type of AI system which uses as input, as data, human-generated evaluation data. Those are all human-generating evolution data. And the problem with that data is that it's very biased because we're all biased, of course. It has all kind of defects in the

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