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The dispute here is about gender classification. If you can give a consistent explanation of how your own visual system works for this task, then perhaps one da
by jl2718 8y ago
The dispute here is about gender classification. If you can give a consistent explanation of how your own visual system works for this task, then perhaps one day we’ll be able to program a computer to do the same.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoI can't, but human visual perception can be a subject to introspection to a high degree, and can be top-down overriden. That is, I can name at least some of the reasons why the person I'm looking at looks male/female to me, and in cases that are not obvious, I can step what I see through high-level, explicit reasoning, and the result actually informs my perception. Also, to the benefit of my perception works the fact that human beings have shared brain architecture, and the way I see stuff is the same as everybody else, so whatever half-assed explanation I could give, it's intimately understood by other people. In contrast, ML models are completely alien to us.