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If you ask for a nurse as an example, and 85% of nurses are female, shouldn't you expect it to give you a female?
by oh_sigh 5y ago
If you ask for a nurse as an example, and 85% of nurses are female, shouldn't you expect it to give you a female?
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y agoIf you ask for a nurse and 85% are female, but 95% of the nurse images online are female, what distribution do you want it to return? “What do you expect it to do” is a worse question than “What do you want it to do?” It’s a problem is that right now there’s only one option (reflect the training set with a bias towards the most common cases).
- karpierz 5y agoIt depends on whether you want it to show what someone would expect a nurse to look like, or show what a nurse. Nothing in the definition of a nurse implies female. If you ask for a female US president, should the application simply return a black screen? If you ask for a black US president, would you expect it to only ever return pictures of Barack Obama?
- Rerarom 5y agoWell, nurse ends in an e, which is usually a feminine ending.
- na85 5y agoNot really in English. Uncle, Prince, Sire, and Duke come immediately to mind. Most of their feminine cognates end in consonants.
- oh_sigh 5y agoI agree nothing in the definition of nurse implies female, but something in our culture definitely has "nurse -> female". Likewise, nothing in "college student" definitionally implies age, but I wouldn't consider it a success if my system displayed a picture of a 9 year old.
- lovemenot 5y ago>> Nothing in the definition of a nurse implies female. Unfortunately it's not a great example with which to make this point. Before Florence Nightingale, a nurse was a person who was employed to suckle your babies. Of course 100% were female. Wet nurse was a later coining to differentiate the two meanings.