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Re:Racial-profiling software shows how AI can be dangerous by weberc2 on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:50PM (#17207269)
I don't know how much stock I would put in this being indicative of our society's views on gender. Notably, you point out that there is no male analog for "foolish woman", but we're all familiar with the foolish man trope (Joey from friends, Phil from Modern Family, Tim from Home Improvement, Ron Burgundy from Anchror Man, etc etc).

Note: I shouldn't have to point out that I'm _not_ saying our society is fair and just with respect to gender, but I know a lot of people will try and twist my words, so hopefully this disclaimer heads off a lot of unnecessary tangents.

Re:Racial-profiling software shows how AI can be dangerous by crooked-v on Friday June 01, 2018 @01:10PM (#17207525)
It makes me think less "failure in image classification", and more "implicit bias in the WordNet database and/or failure to represent concepts that can't be described succintly in English".
Re:Racial-profiling software shows how AI can be dangerous by weberc2 on Friday June 01, 2018 @01:31PM (#17207806)
It could also be "failure to pick words that mean the thing the image classifier learned". Also, implicit bias in the WordNet database could be _a different implicit bias than exists in society_. Simply, we don't know and we should avoid pat explanations and guard ourselves against our own confirmation biases.
Re:Racial-profiling software shows how AI can be dangerous by SJWDisagree111 on Friday June 01, 2018 @02:05PM (#17208200)
Usually its "idiot guy" not "foolish guy"