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AI seeks out racist language in property deeds for termination

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    DefinitelyNotAFae
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    That seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to use AI for.

    That seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to use AI for.

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    1. Gekko
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      Finding patterns in large data sets for human scrutiny is an awesome use case, doubly so if it's to help society. It's an amazing new way to help crunch huge data sets, and it's disappointing when...

      Finding patterns in large data sets for human scrutiny is an awesome use case, doubly so if it's to help society.

      It's an amazing new way to help crunch huge data sets, and it's disappointing when people expect it to make judgement calls or apply logical reasoning.

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    2. Habituallytired
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      I agree. This type of use-case is really the only thing I feel comfortable working with AI (I do have to do some of this for my job). GenAI and anything involving giving direct control of...

      I agree. This type of use-case is really the only thing I feel comfortable working with AI (I do have to do some of this for my job). GenAI and anything involving giving direct control of important, nuanced things is not something AI is good at, capable of, or really should be capable of.

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  2. raze2012
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    I was a bit curious on why this would take 8 years. But I didn't realize that the number of property records for Califoria alone may measure in the hundreds of millions. Maybe even a billion+. I...

    Santa Clara County alone has 24 million property records, but the study team focused mostly on 5.2 million records from the period 1902 to 1980. The artificial intelligence model completed its review of those records in six days for $258, according to the Stanford study. A manual review would have taken five years at a cost of more than $1.4 million, the study estimated.

    I was a bit curious on why this would take 8 years. But I didn't realize that the number of property records for Califoria alone may measure in the hundreds of millions. Maybe even a billion+. I was expecting maybe a few million total which can be reasonably spread through 50 counties

    I'm generally scrutinous about "AI". but this is technically what LLM's were designed for. To parse through mass amounts of human language data and find complex patterns. And it seems like they are using this more to identify potential problems, not be the one click solution.

    I wish more of the marketeduse cases went this way; a tool to auomate the boring stuff, not replace human labor nor judgement.

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