>BRD wrote: >> Do you suppose Tesla will be required to make their source code >> available for scrutiny if things get to court?
At 16:59 +1000 21/7/16, Jim Birch wrote: >Do you suppose that anyone could understand it? A multilayer neural >network is essentially a black box. Presumably Tesla's cars have a bunch >of virtual neural networks in their system. It's the training that makes >this kind of system work. It might be possible to assess quality of the >training applied to the system but analysis in the old sense is not going >to work. > >We are increasingly in a world where the relationships between inputs and >outputs are beyond humans. A human needs to chunk complex inputs down to a >handful of variables. This is not necessary for a machine. This allows >new classes of problems to be tackled but some traditional touchstones no >longer apply. Robots will have top level designers and trainers but not >"if X do Y" programmers in the traditional sense. Also, according to >Asimov: psychologists. This was written in relation to drones, but it applies equally here: http://www.rogerclarke.com/SOS/Drones-I.html#CRD -- Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 6916 http://about.me/roger.clarke mailto:[email protected] http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
