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I don't know how much stock I would put in this being indicative of our society's views on gender. Notably, you point out that there is no male analog for "fool
by weberc2 8y ago
I don't know how much stock I would put in this being indicative of our society's views on gender. Notably, you point out that there is no male analog for "foolish woman", but we're all familiar with the foolish man trope (Joey from friends, Phil from Modern Family, Tim from Home Improvement, Ron Burgundy from Anchror Man, etc etc).
Note: I shouldn't have to point out that I'm _not_ saying our society is fair and just with respect to gender, but I know a lot of people will try and twist my words, so hopefully this disclaimer heads off a lot of unnecessary tangents.
- crooked-v 8y agoIt makes me think less "failure in image classification", and more "implicit bias in the WordNet database and/or failure to represent concepts that can't be described succintly in English".
- weberc2 8y agoIt could also be "failure to pick words that mean the thing the image classifier learned". Also, implicit bias in the WordNet database could be _a different implicit bias than exists in society_. Simply, we don't know and we should avoid pat explanations and guard ourselves against our own confirmation biases.
- SJWDisagree111 8y agoUsually its "idiot guy" not "foolish guy"