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https://medium.com/@robot_MD/when-bias-in-product-design-means-life-or-death-ea3d16e3ddb2
Saw this on my news feed. Couldn't believe my eyes.
>AI lacks diversity
>Hello Barbie's programming was sexist
>Automotive product design and development has been largely defined by men
>female drivers are 47% more likely to be seriously injured in a car crash
Should we start designing seatbelts for every demographic then? The whole point is that design and development has to be safe for as many people as possible. Who's more prone to driving a car? An adult male or a pregnant woman?
>This [lack of diversity] is equally problematic when it comes to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, sexual orientation, and more.
>Google’s computer vision system labeled African Americans as gorillas, while Microsoft’s vision system was reported to fail to recognize darker skinned people.
Are trigger warnings now going to be mandatory in future technology? How can you be so far from reality?
TL;DR Complaining that AI is sexist, racist and homophobic because it's made by white males.
>I refuse to believe that it’s harder to hire minority candidates than it is to build self-driving cars.
Icing on the fucking cake.
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Nice shitpost, retard.
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>>57550391
this is /b/ not /g/ you fucking nigger keep your meme page admin type comments to yourself
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>>57550374
So her problem is that products/services weren't super perfect when they first came out. All of her examples were fixed, and not by forcing quotas or other crap, but simply improving on methodology. You will never come out with a perfect product with all the features and considerations on the first try.
This is an example of the 'women in tech' meme. There are untold numbers of actually brilliant individuals of all demographic combinations within computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, etc. These individuals simply get on with the work and are recognised for their contributions. This author has nothing to contribute other than her gripes and complaints, all the while claiming to represent ALL women/minorities, who have nothing to do with her.
It's shit like this 'AI needs diversity' that makes people who actually understand the technology roll their eyes. But then again, an article like this isn't made for that crowd, but the social justice crowd who wants to simply reduce all complex problems into those of 'identity'. They are basically preachers for a religion - repent and join the righteous path or be doomed (or burned at the stake by the mob they whip up).
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I don't see the problem with the car safety thing.
Gender is a social construct, so before entering the car, you just need to identify yourself as a male.
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>>57550374
Good, the best way to destroy skynet is from within by allowing the SJW touch of death to proliferate.
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