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Are you accusing a convolutional neural network of being misogynistic? Despite frequent attempts to muddy the waters by certain self-promoting parties, machine
by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Are you accusing a convolutional neural network of being misogynistic? Despite frequent attempts to muddy the waters by certain self-promoting parties, machine learning is probably the closest to an unbiased system imperfect humans can construct!
Admittedly, it's still vulnerable to Garbage In, Garbage Out as all computer programs are. You have to be careful you're asking the right question, and interpreting the answer correctly, which isn't always as easy as it seems. But to immediately discount the study because it might disagree with your ideology seems like a poor approach (if an all too human one).
Anyway, even in the current hyper-polarized climate, I don't see this study as saying anything particularly controversial unless you're VERY far on the fringe. Male and female brains are different enough physically, especially in certain areas, for a CNN to tell them apart with 90-ish percent accuracy. There's some discussion of what the implications of this might be, but only barely. Given that male and female biology is clearly distinct in any number of other ways, both dramatic and subtle, this is more or less what you'd expect.
- ilaksh 5y agoI don't think you read my comment very carefully. I said "the history". As in, _other_ studies have been used to reinforce misogyny in the past. And I did not come close to "immediately discount". Please read my comment again.