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Our ability for pattern recognition w/ human faces developed over the course of many thousands of years. People in modern fire fighting gear weren't present thr
by ineedasername 5y ago
Our ability for pattern recognition w/ human faces developed over the course of many thousands of years. People in modern fire fighting gear weren't present through that process. A kid thinking a firefighter is a robot is not the same class of problem. Even kids are good at the type of tasks we're talking about.
- MattGaiser 5y agoPeople have difficulty distinguishing the individual faces of other races. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-race_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-race_effect So at some level it breaks down for us too.
- IncRnd 5y agoThe cross-race effect is an instance of the ingroup advantage. However, that can't be extended to say that people will classify blacks as primates.
- ineedasername 5y agoYes and I think its fair to say that a firefighter in full gear is a reasonable place for it to breakdown, and that does does not otherwise indicate a failing in human capability in this area that should make our failure modes in any way whatsoever at the same level or rate as computer models.