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Ted Coombs's avatar

I want to agree and disagree. I want to be contrarian about this. I think there is a place for human-in-the-loop. I strongly agree that AI should work beside you. But, it seems what you are suggesting introduces something people forget is a negative. That thing is human bias. Many decisions humans make are based on wrong information, maybe someone’ opinionated Reddit post. They get tired. And relegated to the job of pushing the yes key or the no key has belittled humanity. People are worried that AI will steal our jobs and we need a place in this scenario. Luddite thinking. AI is and will continue to steal the jobs we created it to do better than us. Here is a typical scenario. AI can read medical imaging far better than a radiologist. This is just now fact. But a doctor must sign off on the results? Why? It’s not because the doctor will ever say, no, that’s a peanut not a tumor. It’s because insurance companies want a human to say, I signed this. Culpability. Does AI make mistakes? Yes. Far less than humans. An AI will never treat a woman differently from a man, or a black person different from a white person. It won’t make decisions based on greed. So, partner yes. Relegate humans to be approvers, absolutely not.

Diamantino Almeida's avatar

You’re right we all suffer from our own biases, and I appreciate you pointing that out and thank you for reading my post.

Note: “I’m not here to say you’re wrong or that I’m right, or vice versa. In my view, we’re simply exchanging ideas a form of critique. I appreciate the time you’ve taken to share your comment, which I support. Of course, I have my own beliefs, different from yours, and that’s perfectly fine.”

I feel we need people as approvers, much like how LLM models can be improved over time, and true “machines” will be better than us in doing things just like a calculator can do arithmetic much faster than us, but this is a neutral tool, unlike LLMs(Chatbots).

I feel we must also believe that people can change or at the very least, we should have mechanisms in place to ensure accountability when people make decisions, (and AI can help us with this also). I’m well aware that processes can be flawed, just as we and machines are flawed.

We have countless examples of algorithms misidentifying people or placing them in the wrong categories and even places, and several examples done by humans. While it’s true that insurance requires accountability from a doctor, we must remind ourselves that AI doesn’t know what a tumour is it’s merely pattern recognition. Yet, we can’t deny that it has saved countless lives by speeding up that recognition process.

You’re right that “AI” will never treat a woman differently from a man because it doesn’t understand what a human being is, it’s just pattern recognition. The output will benefit or harm based on the training data it was given and instructions in the model, which is made by humans. In the end, it all comes back to us.

I believe we need to support and educate ourselves so we can be in a better position to make decisions for better or worse, and improve our deep learning models so we can obtain benefits that will improve our lives and even save lives.

We has humans are capable of good and evil, and you are right in pointing this out, sometimes we are our own enemies or even inadequate for certain decisions.