Staff who maintain the news homepages on Microsoft’s MSN website and its Edge browser – used by millions of Britons every day – have been told that they will be no longer be required because robots can now do their jobs.
The people at MSN have probably developed some sort of model based on scoring on perhaps source, title, content. They know that “Kanye West” gets lots of readers, and mostly scores high for entertainment. Maybe “Boris Johnson” gets lots of readers and mostly scores high for news. Add up the scores and the highest articles get selected.
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AI is indeed good enough to sift through all the articles from designated sources and decide which will appeal most to readers. It will be better than humans, as it will not consider whether it agrees with the article's assumptions. Management of AI will involve deciding what of the billions of web pages merit being a designated source for AI to search. This might be the only way for clandestine bias to sneak back in.
The management is more about errors. Not things that take a particular line, but things that are flat wrong but crude AI gets wrong.
Like if you ever use image AI they're very good at things. Around 95% good. 5% of the time it either can't tell or really fouls up. Like, it detects a Ford Pontiac as a pineapple. Why? I don't know.
really fouls up. Why?
Lack of domain knowledge aka common sense. You or I might have a momentary illusion or wake from a confusingly real dream, but context is usually a damper of an over-active imagination or implausible line of reasoning. So long as the logic, or probabilities, or hill-climbing, seem to be heading somewhere AI will just keep going.