The Myth of Human-in-the-Loop

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Thinking Machines: AI & Philosophy

Daniel Reid Cahn

27 episodes

1 month ago

“Thinking Machines,” hosted by Daniel Reid Cahn, bridges the worlds of artificial intelligence and philosophy - aimed at technical audiences. Episodes explore how AI challenges our understanding of topics like consciousness, free will, and morality, featuring interviews with leading thinkers, AI leaders, founders, machine learning engineers, and philosophers. Daniel guides listeners through the complex landscape of artificial intelligence, questioning its impact on human knowledge, ethics, and the future. We talk through the big questions that are bubbling through the AI community, covering topics like "Can AI be Creative?" and "Is the Turing Test outdated?", introduce new concepts to our vocabulary like "human washing," and only occasionally agree with each other. Daniel is a machine learning engineer who misses his time as a philosopher at King's College London. Daniel is the cofounder and CEO of Slingshot AI, building the foundation model for psychology.

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The Myth of Human-in-the-Loop

Thinking Machines: AI & Philosophy

36 minutes

1 year ago

The Myth of Human-in-the-Loop

Ex-Datadog Founding PM, Ayush Kapur, joins Daniel Cahn on SlingTalks to talk through the overloaded term, "Human in the Loop". They hone in on the impact of both, emotional and philosophical aspects of human interactions, for instance, your interaction with a doctor, and how those services can be considered irreplaceable by AI.

Key topics include:

Human-in-the-loop as human review vs. partially automated processes
Use cases where human-in-the-loop makes automation useless because humans have to repeat the exact same steps as the AI.
Liability and “human-washing,” where a human-in-the-loop is used for masking decisions effectively made by AI.
The psychological aspects of trusting a decision that's viewed as human vs. AI
Future scenarios where decision-making is fully delegated to AI

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