“Writing in Forbes, Kalev Leetaru compares today's machine learning systems to magic tricks, and boy is the comparison apt: "Under perfect circumstances and fed ideal input data that closely matches its original training data, the resulting solutions are nothing short of magic, allowing their users to suspend disbelief and imagine for a moment that an intelligent silicon being is behind their results. Yet the slightest change of even a single pixel can throw it all into chaos, resulting in absolute gibberish or even life-threatening outcomes."” AI is like a magic trick: amazing until it goes wrong, then revealed as a cheap and brittle effect https://boingboing.net/2019/07/09/expert-at-the-pivot-table.html via Instapaper