Since algorithmic systems “learn” from the examples they’re fed, if they don’t get enough examples of, say, black women during the learning stage, they’ll have a harder time recognizing them when deployed.
A new study finds a potential risk with self-driving cars: failure to detect dark-skinned pedestrians
Well, it's not technically wrong. Humans _are_ primates, after all. But since I doubt that the algorithm has problems deciding on a species for white male homo sapiens, I guess that there's quite a bit of work still to be done.
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Since algorithmic systems “learn” from the examples they’re fed, if they don’t get enough examples of, say, black women during the learning stage, they’ll have a harder time recognizing them when deployed.
A new study finds a potential risk with self-driving cars: failure to detect dark-skinned pedestrians
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/3/5/18251924/self-dr...