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Re:How Normal Am I? by ibudiallo on Thursday October 01, 2020 @03:34AM (#24648377)
Ah, this one couldn't find my face. It kept focusing on my left ear and gave it a 5 for attractiveness. Then it couldn't find my face any longer. There was another fun one posted here months ago [1].

I wanna say I'm disappointed, but I'd be lying. I'm happy that A.I. cannot detect us black people. I'll need to do something about that left ear though.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21337863

Re:How Normal Am I? by moksly on Thursday October 01, 2020 @03:52AM (#24648483)
The only person I know who did something about his left ear, did admirable. Just don’t wrap the ear in a newspaper and hand it to a prostitute, as I doubt that sort of thing will work out well in these modern times.
Re:How Normal Am I? by Twisol on Thursday October 01, 2020 @03:56AM (#24648517)
Before googling: Is this a van Gogh reference?

After googling: Yep, that's a van Gogh reference.

https://www.vangoghgallery.com/misc/van-goghs-ear.html

> Vincent took the ear and wrapped it in newspaper. With a hat pulled down over his wound, he, with ear in hand, left the house to go to a “maison de tolerance”, a brothel close to the house. There he asked for a girl named Rachel who he gave the ear to saying “Guard this object carefully.”

Re:How Normal Am I? by dirtnugget on Thursday October 01, 2020 @06:49AM (#24649458)
Whatever drugs he was taking, I want them
Re:How Normal Am I? by coldtea on Thursday October 01, 2020 @08:48AM (#24650247)
It was just that he had forgotten that she had invited him, and it was a Sunday and all the gift shops were closed...
Re:How Normal Am I? by augusto-moura on Thursday October 01, 2020 @10:51AM (#24651495)
Of course, that makes it totally acceptable now haha
Re:How Normal Am I? by jakeva on Thursday October 01, 2020 @12:26PM (#24652851)
I don't think it worked out well in his times either
Re:How Normal Am I? by web007 on Thursday October 01, 2020 @11:18AM (#24651876)
It's okay, the wall in front of me scored 6.4, was a 14 year old male with a BMI of 36.1, and had a happy reaction to a dog.
Re:How Normal Am I? by stolenmerch on Thursday October 01, 2020 @08:27AM (#24650097)
I'm not black, but have a beard and I got the same results as you. I want to say maybe this algorithm needs some work.
Re:How Normal Am I? by throwaway0a5e on Thursday October 01, 2020 @11:33AM (#24652092)
Burkas, beards and sunglasses are the natural predators of facial recognition algorithms.
Re:How Normal Am I? by amelius on Thursday October 01, 2020 @05:37AM (#24649080)
I think the crowd sourced "am I hot or not" did a better job.
Re:How Normal Am I? by kristopolous on Thursday October 01, 2020 @01:10PM (#24653483)
Maybe someone can enlighten me. I first heard about this problem 10 years ago. I'm sure it's been known far longer.

Is there some extremely difficult algorithmic problem preventing these systems from working on people with darker skin?

I had presumed it was a long corrected oversight but it still appears to be a problem.

Re:How Normal Am I? by magic_beans on Thursday October 01, 2020 @06:19PM (#24656769)
Even photographic cameras have difficulty with exposure for dark skin. This is a problem as old as photography.
Re:How Normal Am I? by kristopolous on Thursday October 01, 2020 @09:31PM (#24657900)
So the deltas are narrower creating a breakdown in the SNR for say edge detection?

Please excuse me if this is totally wrong and I sound ignorant, I assure you I am...

Re:How Normal Am I? by INTPenis on Thursday October 01, 2020 @06:28AM (#24649355)
I have a big beard and thick black framed glasses, often image recognition can't find my face either. And I'm also happy about it. :)

I'm extremely nearsighted so through the glasses my face looks smaller than it actually is. The outlines of my face are shifted.

Whenever my gfs daughter wanted to play with snapchat and me I had to take off the glasses for it to work.

Re:How Normal Am I? by justinlloyd on Thursday October 01, 2020 @01:07PM (#24653443)
TL/DR; it's a off-hand joke.

Cannot decide if I should respond with a meme reference to Samual L. Jackson asking "Does he look like a *?" or ask "Do you also cook? Do you have a deep voice? Are we only used to seeing your torso and your hands? Do you have a popular YouTube show?"

But frankly, that's interesting the accommodation you have to make for an algorithm to play with your daughter. I wonder what other accommodations people make in life because of algorithms.

Re:How Normal Am I? by smusamashah on Thursday October 01, 2020 @07:33AM (#24649706)
It started with 5, then I kept getting closer to the camera until it was at 7.5 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re:How Normal Am I? by Izkata on Thursday October 01, 2020 @09:13AM (#24650447)
I started with 5, and got up to 6 by angling my head down and to the right and raising my left eyebrow.
Re:How Normal Am I? by noetokyo on Thursday October 01, 2020 @08:23AM (#24650066)
Its probably focusing on a single part of your skin.
Re:How Normal Am I? by FerretFred on Thursday October 01, 2020 @09:28AM (#24650563)
Hmmm.. this is not a new thing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d16LNHIEJzs

Re:How Normal Am I? by koliber on Thursday October 01, 2020 @07:32AM (#24649703)
According to this AI I am about as attractive as your ear.
Re:How Normal Am I? by taneq on Thursday October 01, 2020 @01:04PM (#24653415)
I kinda wanna see your ear now.