Your example of catastrophic failure is… e-mail? Spam filters are wrong all the time, and they’re still fantastic. Glancing in the folder for rare exceptions is cognitively easier than categorizing every single thing one-by-one.
If there’s one false negative, you don’t go “Holy shit, it’s the actual prince of Nigeria!”
But sure, let’s apply flawed models somewhere safe, like analyzing medical data. What?
And it doesn’t matter if it gets it wrong one time in a hundred, that one time is enough to completely negate all potential positives of the feature.
Obviously fucking not.
Even in car safety, a literal life-and-death context, a camera that beeps when you’re about to screw up can catch plenty of times where you might guess wrong. Yeah - if you straight-up do not look, and blindly trust the beepy camera, bad things will happen. That’s why you have the camera and look.
If a single fuckup renders the whole thing worthless, I have terrible news about human programmers.
Your example of catastrophic failure is… e-mail? Spam filters are wrong all the time, and they’re still fantastic. Glancing in the folder for rare exceptions is cognitively easier than categorizing every single thing one-by-one.
If there’s one false negative, you don’t go “Holy shit, it’s the actual prince of Nigeria!”
But sure, let’s apply flawed models somewhere safe, like analyzing medical data. What?
Obviously fucking not.
Even in car safety, a literal life-and-death context, a camera that beeps when you’re about to screw up can catch plenty of times where you might guess wrong. Yeah - if you straight-up do not look, and blindly trust the beepy camera, bad things will happen. That’s why you have the camera and look.
If a single fuckup renders the whole thing worthless, I have terrible news about human programmers.