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		Nasrudith on April 7, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Time to regulate AI that interprets human emotions... How do you know it is accurate if you cannot tell yourself? And the ML learned it by your expectations. Without accurate verification you fundamentally have GIGO.

josalhor on April 7, 2021 [–]

In this paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-018-0195-0) Google predicts patients' sex with 97% accuracy from images of their retinas. This was thought to be impossible.

I think this is a pretty decent example of a Neural Net becoming better at something than humans are.

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