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My mom stumbled upon showing her dog at dog shows (she has a Norwegian Elkhound whose linage has won Westminster). It’s a strange subculture with all the drama
by theNJR 8y ago
My mom stumbled upon showing her dog at dog shows (she has a Norwegian Elkhound whose linage has won Westminster). It’s a strange subculture with all the drama you’d imagine. One big source of drama is over the judging and I told my mom one should now be able to make an AI tool that can judge the a dog better than a human. You’d need to train not just on breed but on top of breed (there are all sorts of ‘specs’ for show dogs). This would cause an INSANE stir in the dog show community. If anyone wants to give it a try, let me know and Ill help!
- shaklee3 8y agoSomething like this would be tremendously useful at the Olympics, but taking the politics out will defeat the purpose for a lot of people.
- seren 8y agoIt would only move the drama from the real time judging to the determination of the training data set.
- bduerst 8y agoThat's not necessarily a bad thing. It could lead to more people learning and understanding machine learning models, and improvements from the constructive criticism.
- theNJR 8y agoI see it playing out in a different way. The AI judge would never be officially acknowledged. Instead, it would be this dark judge that people turn to when their favorite dog is misjudged. “See, the computer said he was the winner!”. It would be a while before this group has the sophistication to blame the data set.
- seren 8y agoMaybe having 3 human judge and one AI judge would be something acceptable from the public. That is an interesting discussion anyway.
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- theNJR 8y agoThat’s a great point. The politics of judging, and arguing about it, is probably half of the “fun”.
- wyldfire 8y ago> It’s a strange subculture with all the drama you’d imagine. Anyone who's seen the great Christopher Guest documentary on the subject would agree. ;)
- voidmain0001 8y agoThe movie "Best in show" certainly plays on that drama in a hilarious way.
- telesilla 8y agoNetflix's episode on dog shows for their "7 days out" documentary series was strangly familiar after having recently watched Best in Show again. There were eery similarities. I prefer Guest's rendition but you could watch them side by side.. https://www.tvinsider.com/740004/netflix-7-days-out-westminster-dog-show/ https://www.tvinsider.com/740004/netflix-7-days-out-westmins...