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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8187600, member: 128351"]Artificial intelligence is a form of non-human intelligence, and this is what I find fascinating. The basic algorithms are created by humans and are (relatively) simple, but when the machine is fed with 1000s of images and related captions, it creates connexions so complex that human engineers lose control and we cannot say by what reasoning the machine arrived at such and such a conclusion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Things that are important for a human mind may be judged secondary by the machine, for reasons that are difficult to explain. The machine does not share our conscious prejudices, but its way of reasoning may reflect human unconscious prejudices. For example, some AIs have racial bias: their facial recognition accuracy score is much better for white people than for black people, probably because the facial recognition algorithms were written by mostly white people working on photos of mostly white people.</p><p><br /></p><p>These flaws are exploited by the military. In several armies tanks are painted in a way that is supposed to fool the embarked AI of drones or missiles, who will take the tank for... a toaster! This is the reason why aircraft industries still develop new warplanes, because drones and cruise missiles are not ready to replace human pilots. </p><p><br /></p><p>These AI generated coins are an excellent example. It is obvious the engineers who wrote the basic algorithms did not major in Latin or Classics, thus for the AI the coin legends are secondary, even meaningless, when for a human numismatist they are essential. For the machine it is facial recognition which is essential, hence the good accuracy of imperial portraits, but because facial recognition algorithms purposely ignore hairdos, the AI has no problem generating WTF hairstyles.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8187600, member: 128351"]Artificial intelligence is a form of non-human intelligence, and this is what I find fascinating. The basic algorithms are created by humans and are (relatively) simple, but when the machine is fed with 1000s of images and related captions, it creates connexions so complex that human engineers lose control and we cannot say by what reasoning the machine arrived at such and such a conclusion. Things that are important for a human mind may be judged secondary by the machine, for reasons that are difficult to explain. The machine does not share our conscious prejudices, but its way of reasoning may reflect human unconscious prejudices. For example, some AIs have racial bias: their facial recognition accuracy score is much better for white people than for black people, probably because the facial recognition algorithms were written by mostly white people working on photos of mostly white people. These flaws are exploited by the military. In several armies tanks are painted in a way that is supposed to fool the embarked AI of drones or missiles, who will take the tank for... a toaster! This is the reason why aircraft industries still develop new warplanes, because drones and cruise missiles are not ready to replace human pilots. These AI generated coins are an excellent example. It is obvious the engineers who wrote the basic algorithms did not major in Latin or Classics, thus for the AI the coin legends are secondary, even meaningless, when for a human numismatist they are essential. For the machine it is facial recognition which is essential, hence the good accuracy of imperial portraits, but because facial recognition algorithms purposely ignore hairdos, the AI has no problem generating WTF hairstyles.[/QUOTE]
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