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Surveying the Digital Explosion

Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast

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Why Does a Machine Learning System Just Do What It Did?

The very nature of machine learning is that we don't know how to look inside the black box. Even as a software engineer, it's unsettling for me that I can't explain why the computer just did what it did. The issue isn't even that the company won't tell you how its software came to that decision. But there's lots of money to be made on systems that don't have any such safeguards or explanations built into them.

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