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Google Mistakenly Tags Black People as ‘Gorillas,’ Showing Limits of Algorithms
- awfullyjohn 11y agoFrom the article, "Google’s system may not have 'seen' enough pictures of gorillas to learn the differences – and wouldn’t understand the significance of such a mistake, he said." It seems to recognize gorillas just fine. I'm guessing it's more like, "may not have 'seen' enough pictures of black or dark-skinned people."
- njloof 11y agoSome of Google's best friends are dark-skinned people!
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- DonQuixote1000 11y agoReminds me about the article explaining how a couch textured with leopard skin got confused as a leopard by an AI algorithm. I assume something similar is happening here.
- bntyhntr 11y agoPeople textured with gorilla skin getting confused for gorillas? /joke
- dang 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806513 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806513
- cwbrandsma 11y agoI remember hearing a story (probably apocryphal) of one of the armed forces trying to use image recognition to identify tanks. So the took a bunch of scenery pictures with and without tanks, then fed those pictures to the computer. After some processing the computer was identifying pictures of tanks with 100% accuracy. So the group started showing off the software. Some guy proceeded to take a picture outside that had a tank in it, then fed that picture to the software. No tank found. More images given, more problems found. So the group went back and look at the their tank image stockpile. All the pictures without tanks were taken in the morning, all the pictures with tanks in the afternoon. When they thought they were training the software in identifying tanks, really it was identifying time of day.