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Re:Google contractors reportedly targeted homeless people fo... by kllrnohj on Thursday October 03, 2019 @12:16PM (#21148671)
"All X's look the same" where X is any of [Asians, Black people, white people, etc..] is a very common refrain.

Human eyes also need to be trained on diverse data. It's the cross-race effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-race_effect

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Re:Google contractors reportedly targeted homeless people fo... by acdc4life on Thursday October 03, 2019 @12:46PM (#21148992)
The wiki post mentioned that people are right 45% of the time. How does dl and ml stack up? Also not mentioned, how long does it take for humans to start recognizing new races, vs ml and dl?
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