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Re:Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a ‘Gaydar’ Machine by devindotcom on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @10:01PM (#15455132)
Consider reading the paper itself and the authors' notes before throwing various objections around - they address many of them.

Paper: https://osf.io/zn79k/

Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11oGZ1Ke3wK9E3BtOFfGfUQuu...

Re:Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a ‘Gaydar’ Machine by stevenwoo on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @11:28PM (#15455450)
Read it and here's what I would like to know. When they used human gaydar (which they carefully said this was not...) to create the statistics to compare against the AI sexual orientation detector, what was the best human gaydar and the worst human gaydar (were there any humans actually better than the algorithm)? Why didn't they increase the number of faces available to the human gaydar or did they do that and it didn't make a difference? Also, if they are letting the machine learning algorithm learn, shouldn't they have done it in a way that let the humans learn for a comparison?
Re:Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a ‘Gaydar’ Machine by danieltillett on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @11:07PM (#15455382)
I loved the authors notes on the paper and the idiotic arguments they have to deal with. A must read.