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Pre-emptive compliance out of fear - then my boy, the war is already lost.
"competition is for losers"... right? ;-)
Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon
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#32I would be certainly curious to test ethnicity with this system. Will white students with a bag of Doritos be flagged, or only if they’re black?
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#34> “They didn’t apologize. They just told me it was protocol. I was expecting at least somebody to talk to me about it.” I wonder how effective an apology and explanation would have been? Just some respect.
Effective at what? No one is facing any consequences anyway.
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#35Ah, the coming age of Palantir's all seeing platform; and Peter Thiel becoming the shadow Emperor. Too bad non-deterministic ml systems are prone to errors that risk lives when applied wrongly to crucial parts of society. But in an authoritarian state, those will be hidden away anyway, so there's nothing to see here: move along folks. Yes, surveillance and authoritarianism go hand in hand, ask China. It's important t…
The article is about omnialert, not palantir, but don’t let the facts get in the way of your soapbox rant.
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#36Wait… AI hallucinated and the police overreacted to a black kid who actually posed no threat?
I thought those two things were impossible?
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#37Feed the same system an image of an Asian kid and it will think the bag of chips is a calculator /s Or am I kidding? AI is only as good as its training and humans are...not bastions of integrity...
Using humans for training gurantees bad outcomes because humans cannot demonstrate sociality at the same scale as antisociality.
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#38What is happening in the world. There should be some liability for this but nothing will happen.
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#39Poor kid, and what an incompetent police department not to use their own judgement …… But …… Doritos should definitely use this as an advertisement, Doritos - The only weapon of mass deliciousness, or something like that And of course pay the kid, so something positive came come out of the experience for him
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