I love it when we get all philosophical.
Philosophers have studied ‘counterfactuals’ for decades. Will they help us unlock the mysteries of AI?
… Suppose a person named Sara applies for a loan. The bank asks her to provide information including her marital status, debt level, income, savings, home address and age.
The bank then feeds this information into an AI system, which returns a credit score. The score is low and is used to disqualify Sara for the loan, but neither Sara nor the bank employees know why the system scored Sara so low.
… Counterfactuals are claims about what would happen if things had played out differently. In an AI context, this means considering how the output from an AI system might be different if it receives different inputs. We can then supposedly use this to explain why the system produced the result it did.
Suppose the bank feeds its AI system different (manipulated) information about Sara. From this, the bank works out the smallest change Sara would need to get a positive outcome would be to increase her income.
The bank can then apparently use this as an explanation: Sara’s loan was denied because her income was too low. Had her income been higher, she would have been granted a loan.
Such counterfactual explanations are being seriously considered as a way of satisfying the demand for explainable AI, including in cases of loan applications and using AI to make scientific discoveries.
However, as researchers have argued, the counterfactual approach is inadequate.
When extinction seems eminent, the extinctees hire lawyers?
https://mashable.com/article/donotpay-artificial-intelligence-lawyer-experiment
DoNotPay's AI lawyer stunt cancelled after multiple state bar associations object
The robot lawyer was swiftly deactivated by real lawyers.
Last week DoNotPay(Opens in a new window) CEO Joshua Browder announced that the company's AI chatbot would represent a defendant in a U.S. court(Opens in a new window), marking the first use of artificial intelligence for this purpose. Now the experiment has been cancelled, with Browder stating he's received objections from multiple state bar associations.
"Bad news: after receiving threats from State Bar prosecutors, it seems likely they will put me in jail for 6 months if I follow through with bringing a robot lawyer into a physical courtroom," Browder tweeted on Thursday.(Opens in a new window) "DoNotPay is postponing our court case and sticking to consumer rights."
Do I need to know when ChatGPT helped with an article?
Science journals ban listing of ChatGPT as co-author on papers
Some publishers also banning use of bot in preparation of submissions but others see its adoption as inevitable
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