Autonomous systems are really good at getting things done quickly.
But this speed creates an issue we need to make sure everything is correct.
When a person does something another person usually checks their work.
When machines do things the system has to make sure the result is correct without slowing down.
This is a problem for systems like ROBO under Fabric Foundation.
It is easy for machines to do things.
Making sure they are correct is expensive.
A machine can do thousands of things in one hour.
However if we have to check every single result the system will be slow again which is what we were trying to avoid with machines in the first place.
So the real issue is not getting things done.
It is about trust in ROBO and other machines.
Good autonomous systems like ROBO have a system of checks in place.
If something is not very important it can go through quickly with a check.
If something is more important it has to go through a check.
If something is very important it needs to be confirmed or proven.
Without these checks systems have two problems:
Either everything is checked carefully which makes the system slow.
Things are not checked carefully which means we cannot trust the system.
Neither of these options works well.
What we should really pay attention to is how often the system needs to be checked.
How often do people need to check the results
How often does the system recheck things that were already done?
If the system needs to be checked often when it is doing more things then it is not really autonomous.
If the system can learn what needs to be checked and what does not and the cost of checking goes down over time then we can start to trust it.
People often talk about how work a system can do.
The systems that really work well are the ones where checking and verification become easier clearer and more automatic.
Because machines are not really autonomous when they can do a lot of things.
They are autonomous when we are confident in what they do.
This confidence always comes from verification of ROBO and other systems.
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