On 07/21/2016 05:20 PM, andrew clarke wrote:
On Thu 2016-07-21 16:59:02 UTC+1000, Jim Birch ([email protected]) wrote:
Do you suppose Tesla will be required to make their source code
available for scrutiny if things get to court?
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.
"[Potentially] nobody will understand it" seems to me like a poor
rationale for not making the code available to independent auditors to
scrutinise.
While access to the source code would be good, I'm not sure it's all that
relevant in court. If the car crashes when it ought not to have, they should be
liable. The reason why it crashed is not to the point.
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