Google's new image-recognition program came under fire this week by identifying two black people as gorillas. The blunder surfaced in a smartphone screen shot posted online on Sunday by a New York man on his Twitter account, @jackyalcine. The images showed the recently released Google Photos app had sorted a picture of two black people into a category labeled as "gorillas."
The blunder drives home the bitter truth that even the most intelligent machines still have lot to learn about human sensitivity.
Google spokeswoman, Katie Watson while apologizing on behalf of the company said, "We're appalled and genuinely sorry that this happened. We are taking immediate action to prevent this type of result from appearing."
A tweet to @jackyalcine requesting an interview hadn't received a response several hours after it was sent on Thursday.
Hmmm, so machines have a lot to learn about human sensitivity? Or rather, humans have lot to learn about programming and artificial intelligence... cause they make it seem like the machines made the error when their algorithm just wasn't good enough.
ReplyDeleteIt just goes to say nothing is perfect
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