Part of the problem is the puffery of technology marketing, but AI scientists themselves may also be partly to blame
What do Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla CEO Elon Musk have in common? Both are grappling with big problems that stem, at least in part, from putting faith in artificial intelligence systems that have underdelivered. Zuckerberg is dealing with algorithms that are failing to stop the spread of harmful content; Musk with software that has yet to drive a car in the ways he has frequently promised.
The stakes are also dangerously high for social media, where content can influence elections and fuel mental-health disorders. But Facebook’s faith in AI is clear on its own site, where it often highlights machine-learning algorithms before mentioning its army of content moderators. Zuckerberg also told the US Congress in 2018 that AI tools would be “the scalable way” to identify harmful content.
Government advisers will draw from her results to decide if such AI systems are doing more good than harm and thus ready for use. In this case, the harm doesn’t seem obvious. After all, AI-powered systems for spotting breast cancer are designed to be overly cautious, and are much more likely to give false alarms than miss signs of a tumour.
With all this investment, why isn’t AI where we hoped it would be? Part of the problem is the puffery of technology marketing. But AI scientists themselves may also be partly to blame.
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