Judgement Task
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A Judgement Task is an classification task under uncertainty.
- Context:
- output: a Judgment.
- It can define the value of a Decision Task (e.g. cost-benefit matrix)
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- Example(s):
- “which of two cities is the larger?”
- “which of the two lines is the larger?” (e.g. in a Müller-Lyer illusion task).
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- See: Choice Task.
References
2018
- (Agrawal, Gans & Goldfarb, 2018) ⇒ Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb. (2018). “Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence.” Harvard Business Press.
- QUOTE: ... Having better prediction raises the value of judgment. After all, it doesn’t help to know the likelihood of rain if you don’t know how much you like staying dry or how much you hate carrying an umbrella.
Prediction machines don’t provide judgment. Only humans do, because only humans can express the relative rewards from taking different actions. As AI takes over prediction, humans will do less of the combined prediction-judgment routine of decision making and focus more on the judgment role alone. ...
- QUOTE: ... Having better prediction raises the value of judgment. After all, it doesn’t help to know the likelihood of rain if you don’t know how much you like staying dry or how much you hate carrying an umbrella.