Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
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Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning - “Imagine, for example, an airport security system that won’t let you board your flight because your face is confused with that of a criminal, or a self-driving car that, because of unusual lighting conditions, fails to notice that you are about to cross the street.”
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Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results - “Crowdsourcing data analysis, a strategy in which numerous research teams are recruited to simultaneously investigate the same research question, makes transparent how defensible, yet subjective, analytic choices influence research results”
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Specification gaming examples in AI - master list - A spreadsheet of cases of AI gaming the system including “AI trained to classify skin lesions as potentially cancerous learns that lesions photographed next to a ruler are more likely to be malignant.”