Can You Trust Machine Learning?

Even Tesla's AI is still ultimately spitting out some kind of probability of a crash or something happening based on the inputs around it. I guess the question becomes, can we rely on on machine learning to really get us to the aspect of judgment? Well, you might be surprised, but strictly speaking, machine learning need not include probabilities or any numbers. In fact, for example, one of the most widely used types of machine learning maybe even the most counter to what most people think is decision trees. But presumably in that reasoning, there's still a quantitative aspect of probabilities,. The likelihood of the reasoning playing out over multiple of the die.

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