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Google apologizes for misidentifying a black couple as gorillas in Photos app
Digital Trends via Fox News ^ | 07.02.2015 | Enid Burns

Posted on 07/02/2015 8:16:50 AM PDT by dware

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To: The people have spoken
"..How would the software label a picture of two gorillas? African Americans?"

If they lived in the Washington Zoo or some such place they'd be correct? d;^)

21 posted on 07/02/2015 8:55:57 AM PDT by CopperTop
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To: dware

This thread and the linked article are useless without the photo, so we can judge the accuracy for ourselves.


22 posted on 07/02/2015 8:58:25 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: dware

They use “deep neural nets” to do this recognition which makes it impossible to know what the output will be. It is AI in action.


23 posted on 07/02/2015 8:58:28 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: fuzzylogic

The AI needs further training then with pictures of gorillas and people being fed through it and being told when it is right and wrong.


24 posted on 07/02/2015 8:59:50 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: rktman

So, slavery NEVER existed in America. Problem Solved, very good.


25 posted on 07/02/2015 9:00:32 AM PDT by annieokie
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To: dware

26 posted on 07/02/2015 9:02:05 AM PDT by CodeJockey
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To: dware

Here’s a little exercise:

Take this article, change “Google” to “Fox News Digital Maps” or some other conservative target, and post the story to Facebook, Huffington Post, and, say, DU.

Sit back and watch.


27 posted on 07/02/2015 9:03:55 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: MrB

Lol I bet that’s exactly what they’re doing right now!


28 posted on 07/02/2015 9:04:37 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: fuzzylogic

I’ve studied AI programming and it really struck me as

“good dog, bad dog” type training.


29 posted on 07/02/2015 9:10:38 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: fuzzylogic
Lol I bet that’s exactly what they’re doing right now!

Bad AI! Very bad AI!

30 posted on 07/02/2015 9:10:47 AM PDT by dware (Yeah, so? What are we going to do about it?)
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To: fuzzylogic

When the AI identifies a black woman as a gorilla -

“BAD dog! Very BAD DOG!”


31 posted on 07/02/2015 9:11:26 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: kevslisababy

Ping - see post #26 for picture.


32 posted on 07/02/2015 9:29:11 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were judged by the content of their character.)
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To: dware

They will suffer no long-term damage from this. Primarily because Donald Trump has no involvement in Google.


33 posted on 07/02/2015 9:48:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: dware

Agree. Google should be embarrassed. And they want to drive cars on our highways without a human steering?


34 posted on 07/02/2015 10:40:39 AM PDT by boycott
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To: dware

I googled and found the following:
Just 2 percent of its Google employees are black, 3 percent are Hispanic and 30 percent are women

Twitter employs only 49 African Americans despite diversity pledges

The Combined Black Workforces of Google, Facebook, and Twitter Could Fit on a Single Jumbo Jet
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/07/black-workers-google-facebook-twitter-silicon-valley-diversity

A combined 41,000 Twitter, Facebook, and Google employees, only 508, or 1.2 percent, are black. To put this in perspective, all of those workers could fit onto a single Airbus A380.


35 posted on 07/02/2015 11:27:43 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: dware

WE APES DEMAND AN APOLOGY!!!!

36 posted on 07/02/2015 11:48:39 AM PDT by right way right (Disclaimer: Not a prophet but I have a pretty good record.)
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I’ve told this story before on here so sorry if you read it last time.

Anyway, my one year old son and I boarded the Metro in DC to go to the airport. We were going to grandma’s house.

My son could talk but had zero social skills. He and I settled into our seat and were loaded up with books for him to read (he could read baby books) on the trip.

Anyway, many of the baby books are learning the sounds of letters and g stands for “gorilla”. He was amazed by gorillas.

The train stops and on comes an elderly black woman. She has a short and round body and she had yellow, bloodshot eyes. Her hair was not combed. She reached up and grabbed the strap. Immediately, the mommy radar goes off and I see my son studying her carefully like a specimen at the zoo and before I could clamp my hand over is mouth he yelled in excitement, “It’s a gorilla!”

Everyone on the train car heard it and she glared at me like she wanted to kill me. I shouted out “He’s only one. He should not even talk yet. He did not understand what he was saying.” A young professional black woman sitting behind me said “Lift him up” so I did. Then everyone laughed. They were amazed he could talk. The subject changed and we got out alive. In today’s America, we would have been murdered.


37 posted on 07/02/2015 3:54:47 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: dware

Google can prove it was an honest mistake by having a white couple make the exact same pose, and see if their algorithm errors mistake them for Chimpanzees. If yes, then explanation accepted.


38 posted on 07/02/2015 4:09:47 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
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