
(And up to everyone else to understand that AI systems have a lot of subjectivity baked into them.) It’s up to the owner of the project to call those subjective shots. In AI, the objective is always subjective. The purpose or objective comes from the human decision-maker! Step aside Plato different answers are going to be appropriate for different projects. If you’re intending to classify cats for some other purpose, then maybe the “right” answer will be different. Machine learning’s “right” answers are usually in the eye of the beholder, so a system that is designed for one purpose may not work for a different purpose. If you’re still labeling it as “ cat” at this point, well… I recommend you take out more life insurance. My intended purpose for this system means the correct action for you is to label image 6 as “ not-cat”. If I’m trying to build a pet recommender system which only suggests creatures which are safe to cuddle in their typical adult form, then the answer becomes clear. The “right” answer depends on what the owner of the system wants the system to do.ĪI cannot set the objective for you - that’s the human’s job.

The right answer isn’t platonic and it certainly doesn’t come from the AI system… in fact, there is no “right” answer. Go to 0:20 in this video to watch this article’s demo with a live audience.Īnd thus, we begin to see how important the project’s decision-maker is.
