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Re:Neural nets more accurate than humans at detecting sexual... by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @03:37AM (#16418753)
yeah but I guess the data isn't bad in that way in that the sexual orientation of people on the site is probably labeled accurately (in fact I would expect there it's more accurate than, you don't want to lie about what you want on the dating service), the data is bad in that it is perhaps not a representative sample of the population as a whole?
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Re:Neural nets more accurate than humans at detecting sexual... by erispoe on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @05:10AM (#16419146)
What do you mean by labelled accurately? The AI only predicts how an individual self-labelled on a fairly public dating service, not how this person feels or behaves in any other way. There are so many headless torsos on Grindr (or any other gay hookup app) because many men don't want to self label as gay when they look for sex with other men. These men could very well be looking for women on Tinder.
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Re:Neural nets more accurate than humans at detecting sexual... by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @05:36AM (#16419271)
ok, I hadn't considered that.
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Re:Neural nets more accurate than humans at detecting sexual... by im3w1l on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @03:47AM (#16418789)
> is probably labeled accurately

> the data is bad in that it is perhaps not a representative sample of the population as a whole?

Yeah that's my thinking too

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