• Syntha@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Yeah, well it’s not the same. Models are wrong all the time, why use a different term at all when it’s just “being wrong”?

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      7 months ago

      The model makes decisions thinking it is right, but for whatever reason can’t see a firetruck or stopsign or misidentifies the object… you know almost like how a human hallucinating would perceive something from external sensory that is not there.

      I don’t mind giving it another term, but “being wrong” is misleading. But you are correct in the sense that it depends on every given case…

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        7 months ago

        No, the model isn’t “thinking”, no model in use today has anything resembling an internal cognitive process. It is making a prediction. A covid test is predicting whether you have the Covid-19 virus inside you or not. If its prediction contradicts your biological state, it is wrong. If an object recognition algorithm does not predict there being a firetruck, how is that not being wrong in the same way?