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Facebook Apologizes After A.I. Puts ‘Primates’ Label on Video of Black Men
- okareaman 5y agoAs I understand it, this was one of the issues that Timnit Gebru was trying address at Google AI. A Prominent AI Ethics Researcher Says Google Fired Her https://www.wired.com/story/prominent-ai-ethics-researcher-says-google-fired-her/ https://www.wired.com/story/prominent-ai-ethics-researcher-s...
- rblion 5y agoHow is the Ai coming to this conclusion? Just curious.
- bsksi 5y agoI would tell you, but I would get banned.
- okareaman 5y agoWhen training for people, not enough training data of African-Americans.
- dekhn 5y agono, this isn't coming from a lack of training data.
- okareaman 5y agoThis is where I got my information: Since algorithmic systems “learn” from the examples they’re fed, if they don’t get enough examples of, say, black women during the learning stage, they’ll have a harder time recognizing them when deployed. A new study finds a potential risk with self-driving cars: failure to detect dark-skinned pedestrians https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/3/5/18251924/self-driving-car-racial-bias-study-autonomous-vehicle-dark-skin https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/3/5/18251924/self-dr...
- esarbe 5y agoWell, it's not technically wrong. Humans _are_ primates, after all. But since I doubt that the algorithm has problems deciding on a species for white male homo sapiens, I guess that there's quite a bit of work still to be done.