The ongoing adventures of a boy who never grew out of making and playing with plastic model kits (and even some metal ones too). Also a wargamer in search of the perfect set of wargaming rules for WWII Land and 20th Century Naval campaigns.
Saturday 11 September 2021
AI in the news again (for all the wrong reasons) Facebook
BBC News tells the sorry tale of Facebook following on in the faux pas footsteps of Google, Microsoft and others:
If they were consistent and all pictures of humans were marked as primates I would go along with that as being (dumb but) OK, but they segregate - for a reason only "known" to the algorithm and subjectively interpreted by "people" (of whatever colour). There is no actual AI knowledge there ["Wizard of Oz" style], merely a statistical likelihood of 'acceptable error' against a 'training set' (that in this case turns out to be glaringly unrepresentative).
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Some pedant has to point that all of us humans really are primates, so what's the problem?
If they were consistent and all pictures of humans were marked as primates I would go along with that as being (dumb but) OK, but they segregate - for a reason only "known" to the algorithm and subjectively interpreted by "people" (of whatever colour). There is no actual AI knowledge there ["Wizard of Oz" style], merely a statistical likelihood of 'acceptable error' against a 'training set' (that in this case turns out to be glaringly unrepresentative).
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