Comment Machine mistakes? (Score 1) 220
If the point of the article is mainly to awaken public perception about machine referees,
then sentences like "but the fact that the machine can also make mistakes should always be clear." don't help at all.
People should have at least the awareness that as long as they aren't broken and function as designed,
machines don't make mistakes. (A mistake being the same as 'producing output not in accordance with the input and the design specification' in this case).
Machines however, CAN be inaccurate and often this inaccuracy is part of the design specification.
Equating inaccuracy with "making mistakes" is as bad in misinforming the public as it is to maintain the aura of perfection that surrounds sophisticated machinery now.