Comments on: BI, Robot http://blog.bissantz.com/bi-robot Bissantz ponders Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:53:30 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stephen Hampshire http://blog.bissantz.com/bi-robot/comment-page-1#comment-4558 Stephen Hampshire Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:30:18 +0000 http://blog.bissantz.com/bi-robot#comment-4558 Good point Nicholas - the difficult bit of automation is always getting people to explain the heuristics they use to make decisions. Turning the fuzzy parallel processing of human cognition into a simple linear algorithm isn't always easy! But what do we do when people don't know the basis on which their decisions are made? We could train a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network" rel="nofollow">neural network</a> to replicate their decisions, I suspect, but would we ever trust a "robot" if we didn't know the rules it was using? Good point Nicholas – the difficult bit of automation is always getting people to explain the heuristics they use to make decisions. Turning the fuzzy parallel processing of human cognition into a simple linear algorithm isn’t always easy!

But what do we do when people don’t know the basis on which their decisions are made? We could train a neural network to replicate their decisions, I suspect, but would we ever trust a “robot” if we didn’t know the rules it was using?

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