2022/07/01

Tom Fitzgerald Describes How We’re Using All the Wrong Metaphors to Talk about Neural Networks

“It is understandable that people with no technical training might rely on metaphors to understand complex technology. But we would hope that policy-makers might develop a slightly more sophisticated understanding of AI than the one we get from Robocop.”
– Legal scholar Tomas Fitzgerald, in an article detailing how bad metaphors (e.g. comparing neural networks to brains) hamper our attempts to understand AI
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