Scientists are raising red flags about the accuracy and reproducibility of conclusions drawn by machine learning frameworks. Among the remedies are developing new ML systems that can question their own predictions, show their work and reproduce results.

Concerns about the efficacy of early machine learning predictions in disciplines ranging from astronomy to medicine were noted by Rice University statistician Genevera Allen during last week’s annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Allen said brittle ML frameworks are often flawed since they are designed to come up with some kind of prediction, often failing to account for scientific uncertainties.

Source: datanami.com
Author: George Leopold