“I signed the letter asking Amazon to stop selling face recognition and related software to law enforcement,†former principal scientist at Amazon Web Services Anima Anandkumar told FRONTLINE. In this excerpt, she explains why she felt the need to do so.
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HAL, Michelle Obama is a WOMAN.
"I'm sorry Dave…I'm afraid I can't do that"
No mistake, they're both Dudes, we've known this Forever!! Good job Amazon software !!
Amazon abusers and immoral assholes. Boycott Amazon, don't be lazy. Go and buy in a store, support bricks and mortar shops and community interaction.
its all lies and manipulation
So she never considered for one minute that Obama and Williams are passing and lying about their genders? Ridiculous. They had better input into their algorithm the propensity for transgendered people to withhold the truth about their sex.
How about an update? What did Amazon do ultimately? What's the state of the art now? I know of another AI that is notoriously biased and erroneously puts people, especially minorities, in prison: the human brain.
It’s heartwarming and as well as astonishing to see a person of Indian origin at highest echelons in American Biz that has the guts and the conviction to defy their bosses and speak her mind. Something which techies and top executives do not have the balls to do
Mike Obama is really a dude? Who knew? Barrack Obama knew😆😆😆😆😆GAYEEEEEE
The Computer is accurate
So Michelle Obama and Serena Willians were recognized as man? Interesting.
I'm pretty sure that it's accurate. Not biased, once a dude always a dude.
I hope she doesn’t wake up dead.
Famous Women are Men
Now they have software that can differentiate between male and females, maybe Serena Williams will have to return all her prizemoney.
Both "Big Mike" aka Michele Obama & Serena Williams, both are male, I don't know what her original name. So, this software was more accurate for a different application, it was no mistake. I am not sure whether Venus Williams is also a male, I learnt about this years ago but can't remember from where. I wonder what she would say if she knew that "Big Mike" is/was indeed a man.
Flawless Michelle is a man
Big Mike and Serena packing Tennis 🎾 Balls and 🥖😂
She is brave and it is admirable to step forward like that but … Michelle Obama and Serena Williams both look male, so 1 0 to the algo. I would classify those results as accurate. 5:30 is important, yes training data must be realistic …
Artificial Intelligence is coming…. deal with it.
Moore's Law applies to it too.
People like this lady will not stop and think what could go wrong, so we must think HOW to deal with it properly, which will most likely require a huge fuck up first to be taken seriously.
Now people will say she is so brave for "speaking out" about a problem she helped create in the fist place… like the sick firemen who start fires so they can put them out and become heroes.
Come on people!! Â
You all act as if you would be any BETTER if you were in Bezos' position, you wouldn't be!! And there is a great chance you would be much much worse. Even this guy being interviewed, he got most of Jeff's vision wrong, and he would be worse than Bezos' in his position… as far as I can tell, and knowing that power corrupts, period… Bezos' is doing a great job of it, handling it.
I do know that —– that much power and cash in MY hands… whew!! Â I would be terrible. I was in charge of a team of fifty people, and they loved me, wanted me in charge, but I was aware and CONSTANTLY fighting that motherfucker inside my head telling me to do all sorts of terrible things!!
No, that sort of thing is for visionaries like Bezos who probably knew this sort of thing and power would be in his hands and PREPARED for it way back, like he prepared for everything else it seems, and all things considered, he is doing it just fine…Â
I only worry for the time when he is no longer in charge of this monster he created. But knowing what we all know about Bezos, he is probably already preparing and taking steps for THAT too. Like Warren Buffett is preparing and doing a transition of power thing as we speak with Berkshire.
But people like her have no problem with selling face recognition and other technology to dictatorship like China.