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24. Dealing with Mistakes

Geoff Hulten1 
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Lynnwood, Washington, USA
 

There will be mistakes. Humans make them. Artificial intelligences make them, too—and how. Mistakes can be irritating or they can be disastrous.

Every Intelligent System should have a strategy for identifying mistakes; for example, by monitoring critical metrics and giving users easy ways to report problems.

Every Intelligent System should also have a strategy for dealing with mistakes. Perhaps it’s done by updating intelligence; perhaps by having humans override certain behaviors by hand; perhaps by offering a workaround or refund to affected users.

Some mistakes will be very ...

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