AI Recognises Race in Medical Images

Re:AI Recognises Race in Medical Images by HWR_14 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:33PM (#28527238)

From what I understand, race is a social construct doesn't mean that there can be no physical differences. After all, humans have been able to tell* what race someone is with their stupid human eyes. It's making a claim the important aspects of race are a social construct.

If the defining physical differences between races is both melanin and sternum width, that doesn't seem to be more relevant than just skin melanin.

* In many cases. It's more error prone than most people want to admit.

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Re:AI Recognises Race in Medical Images by pessimizer on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:44PM (#28527386)

> humans have been able to tell* what race someone is with their stupid human eyes.

It's more that humans have been able to define, with significant disagreements, what race someone is with their stupid human eyes. Race is nothing but a collection of these judgments. I'm not brown because I'm black, I'm black because I'm brown.

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Re:AI Recognises Race in Medical Images by HWR_14 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @01:10PM (#28527717)

>It's more that humans have been able to define, with significant disagreements, what race someone is with their stupid human eyes.

Sorry, that's also true.

My asterisk was talking more about the inability to visually tell the difference in many cases. The black people in America who could pass as white in the 1950's (or now). Or how Latino and Middle-Eastern people often get confused. There are numerous cases, both specific and general.

But yes, it's not an objective truth being measured, and I'm sorry if I implied otherwise.

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