The System Always Knows: Why Local Efficiency and System Performance Are Not the Same Problem

Artificial intelligence can make the system safer, surfacing insights not seen with traditional metrics.

Insider Brief One of artificial intelligence’s longest-running challenges is building systems that can improve both how they operate and what they know without requiring constant human intervention. A research team now reports that a new approach could shatter that bottleneck. In a study published on the preprint server arXiv, researchers at Palo Alto-based Hexo Labs […]

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Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly. That when something goes wrong in the public system, alarms go off and someone takes responsibility or is held accountable if they do not. But in 2020 in Gothenburg, injustice arrived quietly, disguised as efficiency. For the first time, the city used an algorithm to allocate places in its schools. After all, working out geographical catchment areas and admissions is an administrative headache for any municipality. What better than a machine to optimise distances, preferences and capacity? The system was designed to serve public efficiency: framed as neutral, streamlined and objective. Charlotta Kronblad researches digital transformation at the University of Gothenburg. Continue reading...

When a major insurer’s AI system takes months to settle a claim that should be resolved in hours, the problem usually isn’t the model in isolation. It’s the system around the model and the latency that system introduces at every step. Speed in enterprise AI isn’t about impressive benchmark numbers. It’s about whether AI can... The post AI latency is a business risk. Here’s how to manage it appeared first on DataRobot.

Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey have different visions for how to use AI for management purposes, but both imagine a system of heightened control.

By Alex Zilberman, CEO, Chamelio. When people talk about AI in legal, they often talk about ‘context’ as though it is a simple ingredient. Add ...