Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'
I don't like these stories. It always trends towards the most inflammatory arguments, those being inherint bias and unconscious racism put upon our technology. Real issues in those topics aside, are any articles like this doing anything but feeding flames and generating ad revenue?<p>Instead, I want to talk about pareidolia. Humans are social creatures. We have evolved to identify others of our kind and read their expressions. This was important to us, as we evolved alongside gorilla analogues as well, and the few of us that couldn't discern one face from another didn't usually last long.<p>I think we're trying to place too much of a human expectation onto these machines.  I think that human features and primate features are strikingly similar, and it's our specialized brains that let us so easily discern.  Yes, with enough data and training we could have more accurate models, but we can't cry foul everytime an algorithm doesn't behave like a human does.<p>Reference: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Pareidolia/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/Pareidolia/</a>