Re:Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'
by exporectomy on Monday September 06, 2021 @10:01PM
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Us humans are super good at distinguishing faces. So what's obviously different to us might not be so clear to an AI or another species.
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Re:Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'
by OneEyedRobot on Monday September 06, 2021 @10:39PM
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>Us humans are super good at distinguishing faces.
It would be interesting to test a bunch of midwesterners at their ability to tell Asians apart or to be able to distinguish various Asian ethnicities. My guess is that a lot of the distinguishing features that they look for are altered or missing.
Re:Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'
by maweki on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @12:57AM
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And while that is probably true for most of us and gorilla faces, even those midwesterners would easily distinguish an Asian person from a Gorilla.
It's true that we're good at recognizing faces (even where there are none), and distinguishing on a basic level (type of animal) but specific faces are mostly cultural.
Re:Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'
by MisterBastahrd on Monday September 06, 2021 @10:48PM
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Us humans can tell the difference between a human eye and a gorilla eye 100% of the time because it's incredibly easy.
Re:Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'
by exporectomy on Monday September 06, 2021 @10:58PM
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What a silly claim. If there was a way we could easily put money on that, I'd have no trouble finding an example to prove you wrong.