1864: "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
2024: "We trained our AI on the cultural output of a white supremacist society; here's our plan to get unbiased results using simple prompt engineering"
@derwinmcgeary I'm in hospital now with my son.
In the last 48 hours I've overheard:
- the Panadol that was written down as given was not given
- the cannula wasn't working so the bolus of morphine that they charted want actually given
How is AI going to handle the bad training data?
@derwinmcgeary Back when I was first learning to code in the 1970s, we bandied about an acronym for this phenomenon: GIGO (Garbage In --> Garbage Out) 🤓
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