Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI...
by guerrilla on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @02:42AM
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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?
> 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?