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Driverless cars worse at detecting children and darker-skinned pedestrians say scientists::Researchers call for tighter regulations following major age and race-based discrepancies in AI autonomous systems.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Okay? It's not like these systems are actually intelligent. Anything different from the majority of cases is going to be at an inherent disadvantage in being detected, right? At the volume of data used for their models, surely it's just a matter of statistics.

Maybe I'm wrong (and I'm surely using the wrong terminology), but it seems like that must be the case. It's not some issue of human racial bias, just a bias based on relative population. Or is my understanding that flawed?

Mind you, I'm not saying it doesn't need to be remedied posthaste.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Ya know, I am not surprised that even self driving cars somehow ended up with the case of accidental racism and wanting to murder children. Even though this is a serious issue, it's still kinda funny in a messed up way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

#blacklivesmatter

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is kinda why I dislike cars and self driving cars. Self driving cars are made more and more cost effective with compromises to safety. I feel like the US needs to mandate lidar on anything that has driver assist features. Self driving cars have been in the grey area for too long.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's almost like less contrast against a black road or smaller targets are computationally more difficult to detect or something! Weird! How about instead of this pretty clear fact, we get outraged and claim it's racism or something! Yeah!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If you say the cars are racist you might get the car right to buy into them....

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Pretty sure Teslas target kids.

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