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Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com)
gooddogsgotoheaven shares a report from Motherboard: In July 2016, Google announced the public beta launch of a new machine learning application program interface (API), called the Cloud Natural Language API. It allows developers to incorporate Google's deep learning models into their own applications. As the company said in its announcement of the API, it lets you "easily reveal the structure and meaning of your text in a variety of languages." In addition to entity recognition (deciphering what's being talked about in a text) and syntax analysis (parsing the structure of that text), the API included a sentiment analyzer to allow programs to determine the degree to which sentences expressed a negative or positive sentiment, on a scale of -1 to 1. The problem is the API labels sentences about religious and ethnic minorities as negative -- indicating it's inherently biased. For example, it labels both being a Jew and being a homosexual as negative. A Google spokesperson issued the following statement in response to Motherboard's request for comment: "We dedicate a lot of efforts to making sure the NLP API avoids bias, but we don't always get it right. This is an example of one of those times, and we are sorry. We take this seriously and are working on improving our models. We will correct this specific case, and, more broadly, building more inclusive algorithms is crucial to bringing the benefits of machine learning to everyone."
Biologically speaking homosexuality is bad for the replication of any species in it's most basic form, with the exception of creatures that are capable of legitimately swapping between the male or female role in order to mate.
This is a scientific certitude that only delusion will argue with.
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
So, when your machine learning algorithm tells you what you don't want to hear, it is biaseD. Reprogrammin it not to tell anybody those things is unbiased.
Are the lefties even trying anymore?
Bees are a terrible fucking example.
Human females, unlike Queen bees, can't mate with 15-20 males over the course of a few days, taking in enough sperm to last 2-3 years and produce thousands of fertilized eggs a day until the sperm is exhausted, at which point she is killed by the worker bees because she is no longer useful (not able to reproduce generally equals not useful in nature) to the colony!
Look, I get that homosexuality isn't a socially unacceptable thing in society, nor do I think it should be. But from a biological standpoint, no one can say that it can scientifically be positively correlated to the replication of the species. Trying to do so just shows how strongly the agendas and propaganda has worked on you that you feel the need to go as far as using a false equivalence to try and disprove the "scientific certitude" in the GP's post and thereby proving your own delusions.