Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'
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Re: Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'
#2Previous discussion from a couple days ago.
Re: Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'
#3I mean... It's not wrong, we're all primates.
Re: Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'
#4I mean... It's not wrong, we're all primates.
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Re: Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'
#5Is that a result of a skewed training set or are people really hard to tell apart from gorillas if there are no obvious tells like large difference in brightness of different areas of the face?
Re: Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'
#6Who takes the fall when an AI screws up?
If you shine enough light on it, apparently the brand does. If a human were to do this, the company would immediately fire the employee and cut all ties with them. But as the article points out, 'fixing' an AI mistake isn't really a fix at all:
> [Google] said it was "appalled and genuinely sorry", though its fix, Wired reported in 2018, was simply to censor photo searches and tags for the word "gorilla".
Re: Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'
#7Is that a result of a skewed training set or are people really hard to tell apart from gorillas if there are no obvious tells like large difference in brightness of different areas of the face?
the biggest tell is probably that, unless the person is in a zoo, I haven't seen many gorillas at starbucks
which says a lot about the state of our alleged human outperforming AI
Re: Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'
#8Do a google image search for "white families" the result might surprise you.
Re: Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'
#9I mean... It's not wrong, we're all primates.
That's not how language works. We're also all animals but not animals at the same time. Context and culture affect the meaning of words.
Re: Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'
#10Is that a result of a skewed training set or are people really hard to tell apart from gorillas if there are no obvious tells like large difference in brightness of different areas of the face?
Isn’t the latter a possible consequence of the former?