The most intelligent AI can't distinguish between Black People and Gorillas?
Cornelius Hamelberg
Google CEO Sundar Pichai: People at Google are worried about AI - DN.SE
"Today, anyone can search through their own pictures for cats, which required enormous resources in 2012. However, it is not possible to search for gorillas. It may seem strange – an AI should have no more difficulty recognizing a primate than a cat. But the fact is that Google has blocked the word gorilla. And the reason illustrates several of the risks of today's AI systems.
In 2015, the Google Photos app began identifying black people as gorillas. Screenshots with photos of a young black man and a woman looking into the camera, automatically labeled "gorillas", began to spread.
No one believes that racist Google programmers did it on purpose. But it is probably an example of the bias, bias, and biases that AI systems sometimes exhibit.
When the system has been trained to recognize images, it has analyzed huge amounts of images, which is called training data. Among them were likely more white people than blacks. As a result, the AI became worse at identifying blacks, to the point of lumping them together with gorillas.
Cornelius Hamelberg
Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA
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Cornelius Hamelberg
It’s not the White people” as such, it’s AI ( AI doesn’t have a heart and doesn't know when it’s writing poetry)
Here’s Sweet Baby James’s song: Gorilla.
The Gorilla lyrics
I thought that maybe I wasn’t going to find it on Google, but I was lucky, I did.
Here’s one of my favourite political cartoons: King Kong and Sarah Palin
Here’s another one of King Kong and the lady in distress, Sarah Palin
In Pictures: The Evolution of poetic man
It’s a very sensitive subject in places where Sunday School is still being taught. In some places in the Bible Belt United States demonstrations were held, and angry people came out reciting protest poetry and brandishing placards on which it was written, “Our ancestors were not apes!”
Mazi Cornelius,Don't worry, if the whites believe that blacks are gorillas, it follows then that their diplomats live and interact with gorillas.That their government officials who negotiate the loans they give to Africans(blacks)negotiate with gorillas and that they give loans to and receive Interests and repayments from gorillas.That they attend music concerts and dramas performed by gorillas.That they engage gorillas to teach in their universities.Etc, etc.-CAO.Google has blocked the word gorilla (BingOn Sunday, 4 June 2023 at 10:40:59 UTC+2 Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:Google CEO Sundar Pichai: People at Google are worried about AI - DN.SE
"Today, anyone can search through their own pictures for cats, which required enormous resources in 2012. However, it is not possible to search for gorillas. It may seem strange – an AI should have no more difficulty recognizing a primate than a cat. But the fact is that Google has blocked the word gorilla. And the reason illustrates several of the risks of today's AI systems.
In 2015, the Google Photos app began identifying black people as gorillas. Screenshots with photos of a young black man and a woman looking into the camera, automatically labeled "gorillas", began to spread.
No one believes that racist Google programmers did it on purpose. But it is probably an example of the bias, bias, and biases that AI systems sometimes exhibit.
When the system has been trained to recognize images, it has analyzed huge amounts of images, which is called training data. Among them were likely more white people than blacks. As a result, the AI became worse at identifying blacks, to the point of lumping them together with gorillas.
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