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Re:MIT Researcher Exposing Bias in Facial Recognition Tech T... by discobot on Monday April 15, 2019 @04:41AM (#19663978)
We do not explain how to read handwriting, we teach by example - and that is exactly how ML works.

And your last point is wrong. ML models are studied and understood much better than human reasoning.

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Re:MIT Researcher Exposing Bias in Facial Recognition Tech T... by colllectorof on Monday April 15, 2019 @08:43PM (#19670135)
>We do not explain how to read handwriting, we teach by example - and that is exactly how ML works.

Teaching children to read is an interactive process that has pretty much nothing in common with data steamrolling in modern machine learning.

>And your last point is wrong. ML models are studied and understood much better than human reasoning.

Is that why new ANN architectures are almost universally constructed by trial and error?

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Re:MIT Researcher Exposing Bias in Facial Recognition Tech T... by dariusj18 on Monday April 15, 2019 @02:16PM (#19667467)
But if you were to present handwriting as evidence in court, if the veracity of the evidence were in question, you would need to present an expert whose job it is to explain the methodology behind the analysis.
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