AI is Racist
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http://nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion/sunday/artificial-intelligences-white-guy-problem.html?
Even computers speak in tongues of white privilege. What now, whitey?
Wow... really makes you think, huh?
if non whites don't like white made ai why don't they just make their own?
>>55264935
excuse me sir, this is a logic-free thread. no logic allowed
>>55264857
they learn from facts, what else do you expect?
>It found that widely used software that assessed the risk of recidivism in criminals was twice as likely to mistakenly flag black defendants as being at a higher risk of committing future crimes. It was also twice as likely to incorrectly flag white defendants as low risk.
>"mistakingly"
>"incorrectly"
>This is fundamentally a data problem. Algorithms learn by being fed certain images, often chosen by engineers, and the system builds a model of the world based on those images. If a system is trained on photos of people who are overwhelmingly white, it will have a harder time recognizing nonwhite faces.
I guess the engineers could build a simple interface for a technician to train the AI on novel datasets?
