Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy
Idea to Value
AUGUST 10, 2021
However, since it does not understand context, it might find a way to reach the target in ways that go against the overall intentions of the programmers. In 2015, Google used machine learning to let Google Photos tag faces of friends in uploaded photos. That way it could not die. However, other examples are not so harmless.
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