Posted on 07/02/2015 3:36:37 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
Mountain View, Calif. (CBS SACRAMENTO) — Google was forced to apologize after its Photos program identified two black users as “gorillas.”
Jacky Alcine, 21, of Brooklyn checked his Google Photos account Sunday and found that the program had automatically generated and labeled a folder titled “Gorillas” for a photo of himself and a friend taken in 2013, Yahoo Tech reports.
The Google Photos image recognition software is intended to identify a photo and automatically file photos into groups with similar images – a photo of a tree would automatically be placed in a folder filled with other photos of trees.
But the software showed a glitch Sunday, prompting Google to apologize for placing the black friends into an automatically generated “gorillas” folder. Google’s chief architect of social, Yonatan Zunger, responded: “@jackyalcine Thank you for telling us so quickly! Sheesh. High on my list of bugs you *never* want to see happen. ::shudder::”
“We’re appalled and genuinely sorry that this happened,” a Google representative told Yahoo Tech. “We are taking immediate action to prevent this type of result from appearing. There is still clearly a lot of work to do with automatic image labeling, and we’re looking at how we can prevent these types of mistakes from happening in the future.”
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Can’t blame the program....it is what it is. Call a spade a spade and a gorilla a gorilla.
I did read some of it. I got my fill of “F” word for this season in about 15 seconds.
Basically a normal looking girl with a guy in the background...
Yea, Google really screwed up here...
It still is quite humorous...
Don’t worry, fellas. White people are currently being labeled by society as ‘racists’ even when that isn’t the case.
Oh you can bet EVERYTHING is racist. If you do not understand, Al and them will be happy to explain why.
i would truly LOVE to see the code, the algorithms, the criteria and the parameters that made that judgement
come now........ Michelle is placed correctly, with the wookies
Brilliant, Google.
Well, stupid, actually.
Gorillas around the world are insulted.
Apologize for what a program does? The program is only carrying out a set of instructions. If there is a resemblance, the program will flag it. Tell the individuals to stop looking like gorillas.
Oops. I used Google this morning before I saw this? Am I going to jail? Or can I just send a check to Al Sharpton?
Next will be moochelle in the baboon folder.
Google always blames the algorithms. They (people) are are always all innocent-like. It was the machine that done it.
Can you see the coding, the criteria and the parameters?
Of course not. Those are business secrets, and if they were forced to reveal them...super-bad doubleplus ungood would occur.
That's what the memory hole is for? Helps to forget. would Rev. Al fit down that thing?
One thing computers do really poorly is rendering human faces. No matter how hard they try, they just can't fool people with CGI faces. For instance, if you saw the movie "Gravity" (recommended IMO), everything you see was completely rendered through CGI. ... except the faces!
Is it any surprise that they aren't as good as recognising them?
After all, seen a pic of Sheila Jackson-Lee?
100%
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