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Facebook Is Finding Problems With Artificial Intelligence Too

Facebook Is Finding Problems With Artificial Intelligence Too

Facebook Is Finding Problems With Artificial Intelligence Too

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

May 7, 20195m 16s

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Show Notes

One day at work last year, Lade Obamehinti encountered an algorithm that had a problem with black people. The Facebook program manager was helping test a prototype of the company’s Portal video chat device, which uses computer vision to identify and zoom in on a person speaking. But as Obamehinti, who is black, enthusiastically described her breakfast of french toast, the device ignored her and focused instead on a colleague—a white man.

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