Jonathan Schofield on Nostr: “Machine Learning systems have *profound* difficult to identify vulnerabilities … ...
“Machine Learning systems have *profound* difficult to identify vulnerabilities
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One of the hardest things in the world is to figure out whether a distribution is random. If I give you a thousand digits of pi, unless you know that they’re a thousand digits of pi, they will seem random to you. But they’re not random, they’re deterministic, they’re a thousand digits of pi!
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It’s very hard to look at the data that you’re feeding to the algorithm and say ‘Is this random?’”
https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111521762417609592
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One of the hardest things in the world is to figure out whether a distribution is random. If I give you a thousand digits of pi, unless you know that they’re a thousand digits of pi, they will seem random to you. But they’re not random, they’re deterministic, they’re a thousand digits of pi!
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It’s very hard to look at the data that you’re feeding to the algorithm and say ‘Is this random?’”
https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111521762417609592