Posted on 02/10/2018 8:38:58 PM PST by Theoria
Facial recognition technology is improving by leaps and bounds. Some commercial software can now tell the gender of a person in a photograph.
When the person in the photo is a white man, the software is right 99 percent of the time.
But the darker the skin, the more errors arise — up to nearly 35 percent for images of darker skinned women, according to a new study that breaks fresh ground by measuring how the technology works on people of different races and gender.
These disparate results, calculated by Joy Buolamwini, a researcher at the M.I.T. Media Lab, show how some of the biases in the real world can seep into artificial intelligence, the computer systems that inform facial recognition.
In modern artificial intelligence, data rules. A.I. software is only as smart as the data used to train it. If there are many more white men than black women in the system, it will be worse at identifying the black women.
One widely used facial-recognition data set was estimated to be more than 75 percent male and more than 80 percent white, according to another research study.
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So they are discriminating against white guys.
Good lord,now they are saying that facial recognition is RACIST-—————I don’t think that I can take much more of this.
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I foresee the widespread use of black face in the future.
Wouldn’t it then make sense to factor skin color out of the equation?
The machines are learning what we already know. They all look alike... /S
Well White guys invented cell phones anyway, so whats the problem? Be happy we gave it to you, home boys.
It’s like there’s too many in the majority and not enough in the minority.
Is this the same soft ware that thinks all oriental men look the same?
“Stick ‘em up! Mammy! Mammy!”
No, I believe you're referring to the new iPhone X, with a face contour mapping scanner. The story I remember was two Chinese women. They found the phone would let either one of them use it after only the owner had scanned herself in to the facial recognition system.
Show up at the polls in blackface?
So the computers are racists and saying dark skinned folks really do look alike?
I bet the software can not distinguish twins!
AI be racis’. Probably designed and developed by, WHITE GUYS!
Quelle Surprise...
Oh, horses**t! It implies no such thing!
It’s a good thing that most criminals are white guys, otherwise, this would be a total waste.
Shadows are the same color regardless of race. Mapping shadows distinguishes the contours and shapes. The differences in contrast do make it more difficult to distinguish the contours when the highlights are closer in value to the lowlights. It’s a matter of the physics of light.
The technology scans upon nothing at all concerning skin color but skull/face pinpointing.
Sounds like computers be racist and have the same issues.
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