Submission + - Why machine learning will build up dangerous intellectual debt (newyorker.com)
JonZittrain writes: I've been thinking about what happens when AI gives us seemingly correct answers that we wouldn't have thought of ourselves, without any theory to explain them. These answers are a form of "intellectual debt" that we figure we'll repay — but too often we never get around to it, or even know where it's accruing.
A more detailed (and unpaywalled) version of the essay draws a little from how and when it makes sense to pile up technical debt to ask the same questions about intellectual debt.
A more detailed (and unpaywalled) version of the essay draws a little from how and when it makes sense to pile up technical debt to ask the same questions about intellectual debt.