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

Re:Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, sc... by Spearchucker on Saturday August 10, 2019 @10:57AM (#20662389)

Is it so hard to remove gender race nationality and so on from automated profiling?

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Re:Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, sc... by throwaway2048 on Saturday August 10, 2019 @12:30PM (#20662976)

There are tons of stats that serve as effective proxies for such things: What schools did you go to, what is your name, who are your friends, etc.

So yes, it is EXTREMELY hard.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automatio...

Thats exactly what amazon tried to do here, but because the AI based its decisions on amazon's previous hires (that is, almost no women) and blinded the AI to gender, it instead proxied women for one of a dozen other things such as school, courses taken, etc.

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