Keep your AI claims in check

Post by reb » Mon, Feb 27, 2023, 11:38 PM UTC

reaperducer wrote: post #34

IncRnd wrote: post #13

Are you aware of the risks? You need to know about the reasonably foreseeable risks and impact of your AI product before putting it on the market. If something goes wrong – maybe it fails or yields biased results – you can’t just blame a third-party developer of the technology. And you can’t say you’re not responsible because that technology is a “black box” you can’t understand or didn’t know how to test. I'm remind…

Good job, FTC Hopefully it goes after some people. I once worked for a founder who was running afoul off some FTC regulations. When the team brought it to his attention, he claimed to have never heard of the FTC. When we explained what the FTC is, he started arguing with us saying it had no authority over him, and he'll make the decisions for his business. Money really does make some people crazy.

Post by davidgerard » Mon, Feb 27, 2023, 11:39 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #38

dylan604 wrote: post #4

wow, i would not have imagined a gov't agency to be agile enough to release something like this. i'm kind of impressed. here's to hoping this isn't just all bark and there's some actual teeth to his.

> here's to hoping this isn't just all bark and there's some actual teeth to his. Let's see what the article says: > When you talk about AI in your advertising, the FTC may be wondering, among other things: (...) Just "wondering", no teeth.

Post by psyklic » Mon, Feb 27, 2023, 11:42 PM UTC

flatline wrote: post #36

“It’s an ambiguous term with many possible definitions.” “Does the product actually use AI at all? If you think you can get away with baseless claims…” Last I checked basic optimization techniques like simulated annealing and gradient descent - as well as a host of basic statistical tools - are standard parts of an introductory AI textbook. I’ve been on the receiving end of government agency enforcement (SEC) and it…

Post by palata » Mon, Feb 27, 2023, 11:43 PM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #59

not_enoch_wise wrote: post #48

How are the companies of tomorrow supposed to innovate when they’re strangled by behaving responsibly??

it hasn't been a problem for the social platforms or other companies operating in the hovering of personal data for profit. the trick is to get too big to fail status before gov't agencies can come shut you down.

Post by foxes » Mon, Feb 27, 2023, 11:45 PM UTC

pretendgeneer wrote: post #56

mr_toad wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Ignorance of your "black box" excuses not Hopefully the FTC understands linear separability. Because I often get the impression that people who want ML models to be explicable don’t, and are expecting the mathematically impossible.

If the system your building is "mathematically impossible" to explain in a way that would be expected of every other system. Maybe you shouldn't be building that system.