confidence in output

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

The glossary is being gradually proof checked, but currently has many typos and misspellings.

By their nature AI algorithms tend to give digital answers that can appear to be very precise. However, we may have more or less confidence in the output of the algorithm, maybe because we know the training data is limited, the sensor input noisy or the algoritmm itself poor at generalisation. In some cases algorithms can provide a confidence measure alongside their output. This can be used in the user interface to enable users to make their own assessment of the outputs. It can also be used by an automated system to make a trade-off on a ROC or to ask a human for assistance.

Used in Chap. 10: page 134; Chap. 19: pages 304, 308