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Re:Making a racist AI without really trying (2017) by hannasanarion on Friday September 21, 2018 @08:56PM (#18043855)
But technologists shouldn't be surprised by this. "Garbage In, Garbage Out" has been a mantra in machine learning since forever.
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Re:Making a racist AI without really trying (2017) by jhbadger on Saturday September 22, 2018 @11:29AM (#18046355)
Indeed. Before there were computers, in fact. In his 1864 autobiography, Charles Babbage wrote:

"On two occasions I have been asked, — 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

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Re:Making a racist AI without really trying (2017) by i_made_a_booboo on Friday September 21, 2018 @10:00PM (#18044052)
Ergo human beings are inherently garbage.
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