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As a human I can’t predict whether someone is gay or not most of the time. Most gay people I know don’t show any of the stereotypical “gay” cues. I don’t see ho
by 0xbear 9y ago
As a human I can’t predict whether someone is gay or not most of the time. Most gay people I know don’t show any of the stereotypical “gay” cues. I don’t see how a machine would be able to determine something like this, so this story just seems like meaningless clickbait to me.
- stevenwoo 9y agoThe test seems kind of bogus but I don't know anything about statistics or machine learning - they always processed two photos at a time and one was guaranteed to be self identified as gay and the other was always heterosexual. It seems like one would really need to have the test work in any combination of cases, not just the one they used where there was always one of each type of sexuality.
- icelancer 9y ago>>As a human I can’t predict whether someone is gay or not most of the time Why would your success as a human have anything to do with whether or not an algorithm could have success in any field?
- 0xbear 9y agoBecause it’s really freaking hard to beat humans on visual tasks.
- barry-cotter 9y agoThe fact that you can't do it doesn't mean humans can't do it.
- 0xbear 9y agoThis is modern day phrenology. It _cant_ work.