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Odoreida

(1,549 posts)
Thu Mar 7, 2019, 08:16 AM Mar 2019

How human bias seeps into autonomous vehicles' AI

How human bias seeps into autonomous vehicles' AI
https://www.axios.com/autonomous-vehicles-human-bias-black-white-pedestrians-001ff4f6-f9b1-4605-9243-5e68537123a0.html

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Why it matters: The findings are the latest example of how human bias seeps into artificial intelligence. If AVs are trained with data that includes only light-skinned people as examples of what constitutes a "human," they won't recognize dark-skinned people as also "human" in the real world.

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The programmers weren't being racist "on purpose" to cause evil results. It just came "naturally".
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