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(NPR)   "I didn't get the job because the AI discriminated against me" is now a valid complaint, and our government is dutifully working on ways to make it worse   (npr.org) divider line
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735 clicks; posted to Business » and STEM » on 31 Jan 2023 at 11:53 PM (8 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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edmo [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 8:55:43 PM  
"Blame the computer" lives on.
 
Naido [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 9:05:10 PM  
"The stakes are simply too high to leave this topic just to the experts," Burrows said.

Feels like these words have gotten quite a workout over the last few years.
 
Sgygus [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 10:45:03 PM  
New job description: AI negotiator.

Don't talk to the police without a lawyer.
Don't deal with corporate AI without an AI negotiator.
 
leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 12:17:39 AM  
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mistahtom
2023-02-01 12:40:19 AM  
Manufacturing is always hiring.
 
A Room Full of Angry Raccoons
2023-02-01 12:44:31 AM  
When do AI creators get replaced with artificially intelligent AI creators?
 
padraig
2023-02-01 12:45:48 AM  
"Sorry, AI says no."
"Doesn't say."
Narrator : "it was because the applicant was a woman"
 
meanmutton
2023-02-01 1:29:33 AM  

mistahtom: Manufacturing is always hiring.


I'm a Detroiter. I've seen what that does to you. Work your ass off for 30 years, don't spend any time with the family and at 50 you can't walk, your body is in pain constantly, and you are an angry little shiat. But hey, you have that cottage on Wolverine Lake (one of 20 of them in Michigan) without power or heat, you have that 17' motorboat and your 2019 F250 that you still owe 30k so, that makes up for the fact that your kids still resent that you were never there for them. Ever.
 
Telephone Sanitizer Second Class
2023-02-01 1:37:11 AM  
Just wait until they integrate AI into HR. Then we get HAIR.
 
HempHead
2023-02-01 2:08:46 AM  

meanmutton: mistahtom: Manufacturing is always hiring.

I'm a Detroiter. I've seen what that does to you. Work your ass off for 30 years, don't spend any time with the family and at 50 you can't walk, your body is in pain constantly, and you are an angry little shiat. But hey, you have that cottage on Wolverine Lake (one of 20 of them in Michigan) without power or heat, you have that 17' motorboat and your 2019 F250 that you still owe 30k so, that makes up for the fact that your kids still resent that you were never there for them. Ever.


Dad?
 
scuzzbot
2023-02-01 3:35:37 AM  

A Room Full of Angry Raccoons: When do AI creators get replaced with artificially intelligent AI creators?


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elaw [BareFark]
2023-02-01 7:45:37 AM  
Can we stop calling it "AI" every time a computer makes a decision?

if (button was pressed){
if (light is off){
    turn light on;
}
else{
    turn light off;
}
}

Look!  Look!  I just wrote an AI! <rolleyes>
 
Chief Superintendent Lookout
2023-02-01 8:50:28 AM  

elaw: Can we stop calling it "AI" every time a computer makes a decision?

if (button was pressed){
if (light is off){
    turn light on;
}
else{
    turn light off;
}
}

Look!  Look!  I just wrote an AI! <rolleyes>


I said something similar in a recent thread in the Stem tab, and someone was offended at my comment.  The response?  "AI is *not" IF-ELSE statements.  It's synapses and neurons..."

Yeah, I felt as if I'd been hit with a bukkake of stupid.
 
Cajnik [OhFark]
2023-02-01 9:40:07 AM  

elaw: Can we stop calling it "AI" every time a computer makes a decision?

if (button was pressed){
if (light is off){
    turn light on;
}
else{
    turn light off;
}
}

Look!  Look!  I just wrote an AI! <rolleyes>


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Samfucious [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 9:46:40 AM  
The "old relics" of descrimination?

Whatever the author has been on for the past 50 years that allowed them to live in a post-prejudice utopia, I don't want any of it.
 
Quantumbunny
2023-02-01 12:27:23 PM  

Chief Superintendent Lookout: elaw: Can we stop calling it "AI" every time a computer makes a decision?

if (button was pressed){
if (light is off){
    turn light on;
}
else{
    turn light off;
}
}

Look!  Look!  I just wrote an AI! <rolleyes>

I said something similar in a recent thread in the Stem tab, and someone was offended at my comment.  The response?  "AI is *not" IF-ELSE statements.  It's synapses and neurons..."

Yeah, I felt as if I'd been hit with a bukkake of stupid.


Honestly AI would probably be a lot more than just IF statements.

But marketing farked away the term and uses it for every decision tree, expert system, and machine learning model.

There is no AI on the planet currently. But marketing and the news would have you believe every app you use and every piece of software is self aware making it's own decisions.
 
Ambitwistor [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 2:05:42 PM  

Chief Superintendent Lookout: elaw: Can we stop calling it "AI" every time a computer makes a decision?

if (button was pressed){
if (light is off){
  turn light on;
}
else{
  turn light off;
}
}

Look!  Look!  I just wrote an AI! <rolleyes>

I said something similar in a recent thread in the Stem tab, and someone was offended at my comment.  The response?  "AI is *not" IF-ELSE statements.  It's synapses and neurons..."

Yeah, I felt as if I'd been hit with a bukkake of stupid.


Yeah, but it's true.  Artificial neural networks aren't decision trees consisting of if-else statements.  They're more "a big pile of linear algebra", as XKCD puts it.
 
Ambitwistor [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 2:06:55 PM  

Ambitwistor: Chief Superintendent Lookout: elaw: Can we stop calling it "AI" every time a computer makes a decision?

if (button was pressed){
if (light is off){
turn light on;
}
else{
turn light off;
}
}

Look!  Look!  I just wrote an AI! <rolleyes>

I said something similar in a recent thread in the Stem tab, and someone was offended at my comment.  The response?  "AI is *not" IF-ELSE statements.  It's synapses and neurons..."

Yeah, I felt as if I'd been hit with a bukkake of stupid.

Yeah, but it's true.  Artificial neural networks aren't decision trees consisting of if-else statements.  They're more "a big pile of linear algebra", as XKCD puts it.


That being said, decision trees are also considered "ML/AI".  It's just that not everything in "AI", particularly the deep learning approaches that are mostly in the news these days, falls into the "if-then-else" characterization.
 
Fark_Guy_Rob
2023-02-01 2:16:45 PM  

A Room Full of Angry Raccoons: When do AI creators get replaced with artificially intelligent AI creators?


It's a common sci-fi topic...but your guess is as good as anyone.

And AI that can write programs better than humans could write a new, better AI than itself. And that new AI, being better than the previous, would undoubtedly be able to write a better AI. At least for some reasonable measure of better.

How many iterations and exactly how far it can go is, again, the realm of sci fi but it would be unlike anything humanity has been through.

Everything from total human extinction when it decides we aren't worth being around, or a war between us and them, or a Matrix style future where they beat us but are actually pretty nice and keep us around, to mixed human/robot ish sort of society, to a human utopia.
 
Fark_Guy_Rob
2023-02-01 2:25:02 PM  

Chief Superintendent Lookout: elaw: Can we stop calling it "AI" every time a computer makes a decision?

if (button was pressed){
if (light is off){
    turn light on;
}
else{
    turn light off;
}
}

Look!  Look!  I just wrote an AI! <rolleyes>

I said something similar in a recent thread in the Stem tab, and someone was offended at my comment.  The response?  "AI is *not" IF-ELSE statements.  It's synapses and neurons..."

Yeah, I felt as if I'd been hit with a bukkake of stupid.

In artificial intelligence, an expert system is a computer system emulating the decision-making ability of a human expert.[1] Expert systems are designed to solve complex problems by reasoning through bodies of knowledge, represented mainly as if-then rules rather than through conventional procedural code.[2]
 
StatelyGreekAutomaton
2023-02-01 4:23:24 PM  

elaw: Can we stop calling it "AI" every time a computer makes a decision?

if (button was pressed){
if (light is off){
    turn light on;
}
else{
    turn light off;
}
}

Look!  Look!  I just wrote an AI! <rolleyes>


And did you know that up close clouds are just millions of tiny water droplets?

We'll never have such things as clouds.
 
DownStreamDreaming
2023-02-01 6:43:03 PM  

elaw: Can we stop calling it "AI" every time a computer makes a decision?

if (button was pressed){
if (light is off){
  turn light on;
}
else{
  turn light off;
}
}

Look!  Look!  I just wrote an AI! <rolleyes>


Wow, you really don't understand modern approaches to AI, at all, do you?
 
Billy Liar
2023-02-01 10:22:25 PM  

elaw: Can we stop calling it "AI" every time a computer makes a decision?


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jjorsett
2023-02-02 12:07:32 AM  
There's an obvious solution: "ChatGPT, come up with a legally-defensible reason for not hiring this person".
 
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