Re:Artificial Intelligence Has a ‘Sea of Dudes’ Problem
by nitwit005 on Thursday June 23, 2016 @07:05PM
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It's possible that adding women will fix some things, but that's just one binary aspect of human diversity. The diversity within a team will always be multiple magnitudes smaller than the diversity of the world.
There are already plenty of problems with accents and speech recognition. I recall people's issues with the Sony voice control game Lifeline where people had to fake a Japanese accent to get it to accept commands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7TacvYrnjI
Adding women to whatever team made that wouldn't have fixed anything. They'd have had to go out and study other accents and factor them in.
There are already plenty of problems with accents and speech recognition. I recall people's issues with the Sony voice control game Lifeline where people had to fake a Japanese accent to get it to accept commands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7TacvYrnjI
Adding women to whatever team made that wouldn't have fixed anything. They'd have had to go out and study other accents and factor them in.