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Cory Doctorow

Team Human

CHAPTER

Are You Concerned About Machine Learning?

I do think that ML's problem is that we use it to do decision making or classification at a scale that is not supportable by human activity. We don't have enough people to, you know, we can't take half the people in the world and get them to be chauffeurs for the other half. Right. So we want machine learning that can drive cars. And by definition, if all the problems that you're solving operate on a scale that can't be tractable by humans, then you can't have humans in the loop. Like that's the whole point. If you could have a human in the loop, then you wouldn't need the automation. right.

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