Re:Software engineering topics I changed my mind on
by Shish2k on Sunday January 24, 2021 @01:10PM
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> Facebook image identifier misclassifying black people as monkeys
Tangential, but it’s interesting that facebook’s reputation is now so bad, it’s become a black hole that distorts responsibility enough that google’s bugs are pinned on them too :P
Re:Software engineering topics I changed my mind on
by dijit on Sunday January 24, 2021 @01:13PM
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Wow. I totally misremembered that. Good catch!
Re:Software engineering topics I changed my mind on
by ayewo on Sunday January 24, 2021 @04:38PM
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> Apple Watch not identifying the heart rate of black people
Do you have a credible source for this claim? The one I found—from 2015 [1]—corrected the bit about skin color in their reporting but retained the bit about how Apple Watches can fail to work due the kind of pigment typically used for tattoos.
Perhaps you misremembered and should have mentioned Fitbit [2]?
1: https://qz.com/394694/people-with-dark-skin-and-tattoos-repo...
2: https://www.statnews.com/2019/07/24/fitbit-accuracy-dark-ski...
I’m famously non-PC, but there are certainly scenarios where diversity is actually a large benefit.
If you are making a product, it makes sense to have a diverse team working on it so that it had the broadest appeal or usability- Apple Watch not identifying the heart rate of black people and the Facebook image identifier misclassifying black people as monkeys being the most famous or prominent examples.