Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI bias

Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI... by guerrilla on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @10:54PM (#23697276)

It's not the words, it's the idea that Senegal is representative of darker people and could produce the correct results. It's an indication that he still doesn't understand.

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Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI... by madaxe_again on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @01:35AM (#23698090)

Isn’t “Africa” just as bad, if not worse? Not all black people are Africans or have African heritage. Far from it, in fact.

Also: darker? Darker than what? Are you taking “white” as your baseline?

I mean, if you’re going to throw stones about how “you don’t understand”, you could try having a rational point.

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Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI... by guerrilla on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @02:42AM (#23698471)

Using Senegal would make people look Senegalese, not "African."

> Not all black people are Africans or have African heritage. Far from it, in fact.

Exactly. That's the "rational" point: the mistake was training the data on anything but the target population. Nobody is contenting that it could have been trained on something else: it wasn't and that fact is the problem.

> Also: darker? Darker than what? Are you taking “white” as your baseline

Darker than the white people the algorithm turns most inputs into. Have you seen the results?

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