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Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often
bigheadfred:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/biased-self-driving-cars-darker-skin
Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often
We already knew that some facial recognition systems struggle to accurately identify people with darker skin.
Now we know that many of the artificially intelligent systems designed to help autonomous cars navigate roads have the same problem — and the result could disproportionately endanger pedestrians with darker skin, a troubling sign of how AI can inadvertently reproduce prejudices from the wider world.
andy58-in-nh:
I just knew it: self-driving cars are racist.
Sanguine:
--- Quote ---a troubling sign of how AI can inadvertently reproduce prejudices from the wider world
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Good grief, that's stupid.
bigheadfred:
--- Quote from: andy58-in-nh on March 06, 2019, 02:20:33 pm ---I just knew it: self-driving cars are racist.
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"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black" Henry Ford
That should fix it.
andy58-in-nh:
--- Quote from: bigheadfred on March 06, 2019, 02:29:37 pm ---"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black" Henry Ford
That should fix it.
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Yes, but everyone knows that black cars get stopped more frequently by the police...
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