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Driverless Cars Are Worse at Spotting Kids and Dark-Skinned People, Study Says (gizmodo.com.au)
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New research shows driverless car software is significantly more accurate with adults and light skinned people than children and dark-skinned people.

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[–] derpo 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

New research shows that cameras have a harder time seeing small or dark things

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to the researchers, a major source of the technology’s problems with kids and dark-skinned people comes from bias in the data used to train the AI, which contains more adults and light-skinned people.

[–] derpo 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry for the bad joke, I understand how it works