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Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

my understanding is that they performed very poorly without being able to make sense of our modern vernacular and why they "had" to crawl all of reddit to figure out how modern humans talk (????? reddit? really?)

why are you telling someone who works in machine learning that machine learning models cannot perfectly capture the sum total of human knowledge and work with 100% accuracy and 100% recall en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_mod...

of course models will tell you incorrect things. that's their inherent nature. data scientists are aiming for `most probably true`, above some threshold, answered near instantly, not `definitively true`, which is intractably hard right now - and maybe forever.

meteorological models are a great example of talking about inaccurate forecasts. everyone has a visceral experience with 'it's supposed to be nice for <outdoor event>' and it ends up being not nice. we still don't expect the news to drop the weather report. we just know that it isn't omniscient.