Keeping Prometheus Out of Machine Learning Systems - The Sociable

Just as Prometheus was a liberator of humankind by bringing the flame of knowledge to humanity by defying the gods, DARPA wants to make sure that machine learning (ML) is trustworthy and doesn't free itself and spread like an uncontrollable wildfire. "Under what conditions do you let the machine do its job? Under what conditions should you put supervision on it?"Jiangying Teaching machines to show their work so we know what the hell they are doing in order to make them partners is an underlying theme of the Competency-Aware Machine Learning (CAML) Program launched on Thursday by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). DARPA wants to make AI an collaborative partner for national defense, but at this early stage the language suggests that DARPA wants to make sure that machine learning doesn't keep us in the dark about how it functions, why it behaves, and what it will do next.