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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: bigheadfred on March 06, 2019, 02:18:20 pm

Title: Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often
Post by: bigheadfred on March 06, 2019, 02:18:20 pm: 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 â€” and the result could disproportionately endanger pedestrians with darker skin, a troubling sign of how AI can inadvertently reproduce prejudices from the wider world.
Title: Re: Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often
Post by: andy58-in-nh on March 06, 2019, 02:20:33 pm: I just knew it: self-driving cars are racist.
Title: Re: Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often
Post by: Sanguine on March 06, 2019, 02:24:34 pm: Quote
a troubling sign of how AI can inadvertently reproduce prejudices from the wider world

Good grief, that's stupid.
Title: Re: Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often
Post by: bigheadfred on March 06, 2019, 02:29:37 pm: Quote from: andy58-in-nh on March 06, 2019, 02:20:33 pm
I just knew it: self-driving cars are racist.

"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black" Henry Ford

That should fix it.
Title: Re: Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often
Post by: andy58-in-nh on March 06, 2019, 02:37:44 pm: 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.

Yes, but everyone knows that black cars get stopped more frequently by the police...
Title: Re: Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often
Post by: bigheadfred on March 06, 2019, 02:54:14 pm: Quote from: andy58-in-nh on March 06, 2019, 02:37:44 pm
Yes, but everyone knows that black cars get stopped more frequently by the police...

Might help to keep them from running the streets.
Title: Re: Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often
Post by: Restored on March 06, 2019, 03:10:27 pm: White people build racism into robots!