Comment on UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I read about an early study into AI where they were using it to predict whether the pictured animal was a dog or a wolf. It got really good at detecting wolves and when they analyzed how it was determining whether it was a wolf or not, they found that it wasn't looking at the animal at all but instead checking if there was a lot of snow on the ground. If there was, it would say it was a wolf, if there wasn't it would say dog.

The problem was with the data set used to train the AI. It was doing exactly what it was told. That's the big problem with AI is that it does exactly what we tell it to do, but people are hilariously bad at describing exactly the result they want down to the absolute finest level of detail.

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