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There's those funny/sad stories of how face recognition software has categorised black people as either invisible[1] or gorillas: http://www.businessinsider.co
by jordigh 10y ago
There's those funny/sad stories of how face recognition software has categorised black people as either invisible[1] or gorillas:
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-tags-black-people-as-gorillas-2015-7 http://www.businessinsider.com/google-tags-black-people-as-g...
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/22/hp.webcams/index.html http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/22/hp.webcams/index.html
The prejudice of the programmer (unintentional, as all prejudice really is) can show up in the code just because they forgot to include enough data in their training set.
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[1] In light of which Ralph Ellison's novel is particularly prescient:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Man
- hodwik 10y agoI ran into this recently on a video chat with my brother, he was trying to pin a mustache on his face but the algorithm couldn't see him. Fortunately, he didn't know why. I don't know how I would've reacted had he understood.
- prodigal_erik 10y agoIf you forget I exist, you are not judging me in any way. If my training data consists of one face, I'm obviously incompetent at machine learning but not prejudiced against everyone else in the world.