Most applied machine learning research looks beautiful in the paper, but fails spectacularly in real-life. They all fall prey to the same mistake: the original sin of machine learning.
Part of the problem in this case is that it's very hard to realize you had garbage. The COVID images are good, the non-COVID are also good. The issue is when you combine without considering all the assumptions.
In the version I heard it was tanks and other vehicles. The tanks were on grass, the other vehicles were on tarmac.
Yup, there are several versions. I think they're probably all apocryphal, but the COVID one is real.
There were three acronyms in computing in the late 70’s early 80’s. KISS, GIGA, RTKP.
Keep it simple stupid.
Garbage in garbage out.
Reduce-it to-a known problem.
Guess they don’t teach those ideas anymore?
I mention KISS and GIGA to my students all the time ;) but hadn't heard the last one. I'm stealing it.
Generational transfer of knowledge.
GTK!
I used to hate KISS!
So use a dumb phone rather than a iPhone?
Use Fortran rather than C++?
Complexity in a program leads to simplicity for the user.
It doesn't matter how well we've coded the algorithm if it's on top of bad data...
I always enjoy apocryphal history lessons- there's a reason they keep being retold!
This is well said: "what the researchers asked it to do, but not what they wanted it to do."
Asked vs wanted is such an important and clear distinction.
It's the hardest problem in AI again: alignment.
Is another way to think about this: GIGA (Garbage In, Garbage Out)?
I mean, the flawed assumptions are always going to bring in an element of garbage, right?
Yep. GIGA is sound!
Thanks, man. I really like to make sure I'm picking up what you're putting down!
Part of the problem in this case is that it's very hard to realize you had garbage. The COVID images are good, the non-COVID are also good. The issue is when you combine without considering all the assumptions.
I mean, that is THE problem, right? (I mean, the problem you want to identify in the article, not the only actual problem with AI!)
Except it's GIGO. (whatever...)