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Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI... by lsh123 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @10:39PM (#23697166)
We can’t prove no bias, but we also can’t prove bias...

BTW, what exactly is bias in this context?

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Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI... by guerrilla on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @11:07PM (#23697346)
Black faces were decoded to white. Bias was proven and strikingly obvious.
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Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI... by oh_sigh on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @11:35PM (#23697499)
Yann clearly points out that the dataset was biased(or rather, not representative of the (presumed) US population).
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