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Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You’re a White Guy

Posted on 2018 February 11 by polgarp · Tagged in Bias and Face recognition
Original link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/technology/facial-recognition-race-artificial-intelligence.html

Not as surprising, bias in data will result bias in the algorithm. So let’s assume you are creating a product with face recognition - now you have to decide what errors will be acceptable for you. Much of product design is about trade offs, but getting good face recognition, even if errors only affect a small number of your users may be comparable to providing good accessibility.

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