rmstein@ieee.org
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 16:17:13 +0800
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/15/computerized-youtube-fact-checking-tool-goes-very-wrong-flaming-notre-dame-it-somehow-sees-sept-tragedy
"If the algorithm saw a video of tall structures engulfed in smoke and inferred that it was related to the attack on the World Trade Center, that speaks well of the state of the art in video system understanding, that it would see the similarity to 9/11. There was a point where that would have been impossible.
"But the algorithms lack the comprehension of human context or common sense, making them woefully unprepared for news events. YouTube, he said, is poorly equipped to fix such problems now and probably will remain so for years to come.
"'They have to depend on these algorithms, but they all have sorts of
failure modes. And they can't fly under the radar anymore,' Domingos said.
'It's not just whack-a-mole. It's a losing game.'"
Risk: Brand outrage incidence frequency multiplies with business accumulation of technical debt.