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Good luck guessing ethnicity for Iran. There will be many who look less middle-eastern than your average "Californian with a tan". You'd have the same problem w
by andybak 8y ago
Good luck guessing ethnicity for Iran. There will be many who look less middle-eastern than your average "Californian with a tan". You'd have the same problem with most near-east or Mediterranean countries. Being at the crossroads for a few millennia will do that to a place.
- some1else 8y agoThis holds up if you imagine the profiling as done by humans. However, neural networks already surpass human ability in some computer vision tasks. The features the trained models come up with can go way past what we might consider visual likeness. The algorithmic method might eventually become 99.999% efficient at racial profiling with the help of something as ridiculous as fingerprinting eyebrow strand distribution & orientations. The right way forward is to fully consider the ethical implications when shaping these policies, regardless of technological ability.
- pjc50 8y ago> 99.999% efficient at racial profiling Next on HN: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Race
- purerandomness 8y agoOh, just correlate with a heuristic for the user's first and last name and their browser's language preference headers to improve the matching in case the face recognition algo is unsure.
- pjc50 8y agoState face recognition doesn't have to be any more accurate than other forms of institutional, armed, racism.