<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 1:19 PM, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Probably not - humans interfere too much! :)<br>
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Quotes:<br>
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Don’t Touch the Computer<br>
By Jason Collins   July 13, 2017<br>
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As Cowen notes, the natural evolution of the human-machine<br>
relationship is from a machine that doesn’t add much, to a machine<br>
that benefits from human help, to a machine that occasionally needs a<br>
tiny bit of guidance, to a machine that we should leave alone.<br>
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There are some great failures by grandmasters in freestyle chess<br>
tournaments. Their confidence leads them to interfere too often with<br>
the superior computer, whereas the best freestyle chess players will<br>
only overrule their machine a handful of times a game. If you can find<br>
a humble but skilled human, there could be room for success.<br>
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Absent limiting human intervention to the right level, the pattern we<br>
will see is not humans and machines working together for enhanced<br>
decision making, but machines slowly replacing humans decision by<br>
decision. Algorithms will often be substitutes, not complements, with<br>
humans left to the (at the moment, many) places where the algorithms<br>
can’t go yet.<br>
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A friend of mine often reminds me of an old joke about automation on<br>
airliners. The ideal team is a pilot and a dog. The pilot’s job is to<br>
feed the dog. The dog’s job is to bite the pilot if the pilot tries to<br>
touch anything. While we may still be some way away from this scenario<br>
in the world of aviation, in some domains we’re already there.<br>
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BillK<br>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​ </div></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​You are probably tired of hearing this from me, but if the shoe fits.....</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">We can change the software of computers, and I assume that there will never be perfection, so that is ongoing.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">We can also change the software of people, by learning. In some cases, learning new things,and in others, unlearning what they know. It is the latter that is of interest here:  somehow we get programmed with all sorts of illogical, irrational attitudes and sets and rules of thumb - some known as cognitive errors - ​</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​and everyone needs reprogramming to correct these, if possible.  </div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Take a cocky, egotistic attitude:  it can lead to grievous errors, but it can also lead to the kind of stubbornness that overcomes obstacles that no one thought possible, through sheer effort - unwilling to fail. This illustrates how difficult and nuanced it will be.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">I have no idea what kind of mess will be created by education when they get rid of the idea that knowledge has to be instilled on a blank slate and adopt the idea of reprogramming the malicious software we are carrying around in our heads, but it will be entertaining.​</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​</div></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​bill w​</div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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