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> it was our human bias of knowing Obama is black As a side note - Obama is multiracial (white mother). As a multiracial person who makes no effort to fit int
by nostrademons 5y ago
> it was our human bias of knowing Obama is black
As a side note - Obama is multiracial (white mother). As a multiracial person who makes no effort to fit into American racial categories and whose general attitude toward them is "Your social construction of race is fucked up, man", it astounds me that people would expect an AI to see what's not actually there. Biologically, Barack Obama is half-black and half-white, and probably a whole lot more complicated than that because "black" and "white" are themselves leaky abstractions that we've imposed on the immense variability of human skin tones. Why wouldn't you expect him to autocomplete to a white man 50% of the time and a black man 50% of the time?
- godelski 5y agoWell the goal is that the reconstruction would be "him". Obviously the reconstruction isn't Obama. Limiting the discussion to race isn't a productive means to resolve the errors. There are more than race and they are likely coupled.
- istinetz 5y ago>Obviously the reconstruction isn't Obama. okay, so the model is not a perfect oracle? What's your point, then, if it's not about race?
- dekhn 5y agoactually, if you ahve a blurred face of obama, there are many reconstructions that are consistent with that data. His skin is pale, his features are selected from several genetic histories... the whole complaint about that example was overblown.