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> So what would be the benefits in DNA diversity at all? Well, this is a pretty contrived example, but IIRC a major company (HP?) made facial-recognition softw
by DoofusOfDeath 8y ago
> So what would be the benefits in DNA diversity at all?
Well, this is a pretty contrived example, but IIRC a major company (HP?) made facial-recognition software that couldn't handle people with dark skin.
If there had been people like that on the dev or testing team, perhaps it would have been noticed earlier.
- repolfx 8y agoThat story is apocryphal. The software in question simply struggled with low contrast images like a dark face in a dark room, which isn't due to racism or employees forgetting that black people exist: it's an inherently hard image recognition problem.