Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, scans license plates

Re:Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, sc... by rootusrootus on Friday August 09, 2019 @07:34PM (#20659077)

I am comfortable saying the algorithm could be made neutral, but I expect it would be extremely difficult to feed it neutral data. Most of what we have now is already heavily skewed because of human involvement. Perhaps starting from scratch, a place of zero knowledge, with absolutely no input allowed from humans.

But even then, I would not accept following two random people around based on skin color and waiting for them to make a trivial mistake that justifies deeper investigation, regardless of what any data might say.

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Re:Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, sc... by RobertRoberts on Monday August 12, 2019 @12:21AM (#20672395)

>I would not accept following two random people around based on skin color and waiting for them to make a trivial mistake that justifies deeper investigation

And I agree with you. But guess what a robot would do? It would follow everyone, all the time, everywhere. By being overly outraged about a small minority of racist cops (I really don't believe it's the majority) we will get something worse that will never ever be able to protest our way out of.

Sometimes, I think the answer to a problem is to accept there will always be some problems. If we continue to try and make a perfect system we end up at a wall and then irrationality pushes us into a bad place, worse than what we had before.

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