Re:Facial recognition database used by FBI is out of control
by lgessler on Monday March 27, 2017 @08:28PM
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I'm inclined to agree with you, but what would you say if it turned out that after much effort the engineering team was unable to make performance equal across all skin tones?
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Re:Facial recognition database used by FBI is out of control
by jacquesm on Monday March 27, 2017 @09:01PM
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You mean that it would work better with darker skin?
Re:Facial recognition database used by FBI is out of control
by handedness on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:01PM
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What if the technical challenges of identifying a person's face mean it will always be challenging to identify someone when the light and/or contrast levels are lower? What then? Manually cripple the system and misidentify white suspects, too?
This post's comments are a great example of why technologists are fairly terrible at engineering social solutions, much the same way sociologists tend to be terrible at engineering technical solutions.