Essay

When an Eyeball Dev Set Becomes Less Useful

Question: Explain why an Eyeball dev set is less useful when the system is trained on a task that people cannot do reliably themselves, and state what a practitioner should do with that Eyeball dev set in that situation.

Sample answer: If humans cannot perform the task well, then manually inspecting examples in an Eyeball dev set is less helpful because people usually cannot tell why the model made a mistake. In that case, the practitioner may decide not to maintain an Eyeball dev set at all.

Key points:

  • Humans cannot reliably diagnose the model’s failures on the task.
  • Manual inspection becomes less informative.
  • The Eyeball dev set can be omitted.

Rubric: The response must explain why the Eyeball dev set is less useful in this setting and state the recommended action of omitting it.

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