Artificial Intelligence?s White Guy Problem
Take a small example from last year: Users discovered that Google?s photo app, which applies automatic labels to pictures in digital photo albums, was classifying images of black people as gorillas. Google apologized; it was unintentional.
But similar errors have emerged in Nikon?s camera software, which misread images of Asian people as blinking, and in Hewlett-Packard?s web camera software, which had difficulty recognizing people with dark skin tones.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion/sunday/artificial-intelligences-white-guy-problem.html?
Take a small example from last year: Users discovered that Google?s photo app, which applies automatic labels to pictures in digital photo albums, was classifying images of black people as gorillas. Google apologized; it was unintentional.
But similar errors have emerged in Nikon?s camera software, which misread images of Asian people as blinking, and in Hewlett-Packard?s web camera software, which had difficulty recognizing people with dark skin tones.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion/sunday/artificial-intelligences-white-guy-problem.html?