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This looks amazing from the computing point of view (and is an achievement of sorts), yet the confidence percentages are lower than what an average human might be able to solve for (like in the case of CAPTCHA tests).

Meanwhile, I wonder about the human costs if systems like these are adopted for purposes where they may be ill suited for, especially cases where their confidence scores are ignored (or mistakenly assumed to be 100% even when they're lower). Anyone have reading material on this?




Care to give any examples of scenarios you are concerned about?


My primary worry is law enforcement and government surveillance considering these systems as infallible and making judgments or life-changing decisions based on interpretations like this from computers. Computing has improved our lives a lot, but sometimes I feel there's an air of over confidence that clouds our judgment.




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