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How Do You Vote? 50 Million Google Images Give a Clue (nytimes.com)
Artificial Intelligence is now being used to scan millions of pictures taken by Google Street View to glean insights like income or voting patterns, The New York Times reports. In a Stanford project, computers scanned millions of pictures of parked cars to predict voting patterns and pollution. From the report: The Stanford project gives a glimpse at the potential. By pulling the vehicles' makes, models and years from the images, and then linking that information with other data sources, the project was able to predict factors like pollution and voting patterns at the neighborhood level. "This kind of social analysis using image data is a new tool to draw insights," said Timnit Gebru, who led the Stanford research effort. The research has been published in stages, the most recent in late November in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In the end, the car-image project involved 50 million images of street scenes gathered from Google Street View. In them, 22 million cars were identified, and then classified into more than 2,600 categories like their make and model, located in more than 3,000 ZIP codes and 39,000 voting districts.
Clinton stole the election from Sanders and the U.S. and her inept campaigning netted 5 million fewer votes than the Democrat in the previous election, resulting in her loss.
Right, she campaigned to her constituants, losing the states that gave her opponent far more electoral votes for an easy win. Stupid decision that saved us from one mess and got us another. Vote third party!
... Did you even bother to read the summary? It has nothing to do with if your car was in its spot on election day.
The election was just over a year ago, but the vast majority of data mining "AI" got it wrong, including Google and Facebook.
So what's the point of making claims about the method used in the OP when it isn't tested and won't be tested for at least 3 years?
DNC is a corrupt organization, so that's good on him. The rest of what you said was relatively accurate.
'Nice cars' are a silly criteria anyhow. Test of how well the 'consumerism indoctrination' (TV) has worked.
'Bad' zip codes are full of nearly brand new 'nice cars', sitting in apartment complex lots and depreciating faster than they are being paid off. Moron owners, every one, R, D or independent.
You can't determine equity in a car by taking a picture. Buying something like an A8 or 7 series BMW on time, just proves the 'owner' is a vain, ego driven idiot. Which correlates with both parties _bases_.
Buying one for cash, just proves the owner has forgotten what money is worth. Which, again, could be either party.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Alabama requires every voter to have a valid photo ID to cast a ballot. While a driver’s license is the most common form of ID in the state, Bentley said anyone without a driver’s license can go to any county register’s office and have a photo ID made and the closing of the DMV offices will not change that fact.
Bentley also pointed out that every probate judge in the state has the authority to renew driver’s licenses and the closing of the DMV offices will not change that fact.
Bentley said not only is the state not engaged in any effort to curtail voting, it is doing all it can to make sure anyone who wants to vote will be able to register to vote.
“We will go to people’s houses to have their picture made if they don’t have a photo ID in the state of Alabama,” said Bentley. “We’re not ever going to do anything to keep people in the state of Alabama from voting. And for them to jump to a conclusion like that, that is politics at its worst.”
I'm not the poster you're responding too, but:
Snopes lost all credibility years ago when they had a Democractic activist doing their political fact checking. Interestingly, Google makes this particularly hard to search for now that they use Snopes as a fact checking basis, thus including "snopes" in the search pretty much takes you to snopes.com (-site:snopes.com takes you to other fact checking sites).
But, the sketchiness of the male founder or Snopes, who re-married to a former escort and pornstar who happens to also work for Snopes.com. Regardless of the truth of the matter, the original founders are in a nasty divorce and they're both quite willing to either cheat or lie to publicly ruin each other:
(From a right-leaning website: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4042194/Facebook-fact-checker-arbitrate-fake-news-accused-defrauding-website-pay-prostitutes-staff-includes-escort-porn-star-Vice-Vixen-domme.html)
I do not live in Alabama, but I know that people were saying the exact same things about Virginia, where I do live. This has not happened at all here.
It's somewhat unfortunate that you need to spend a whole $10 on a Voter ID, but it's also a myth that that is blocking people from voting to begin with. If it were, then Democrats would be submitting legislation to help such poor individuals get free ID cards. Instead, practically all Democrats cry "racism", which is amusingly racist: only black people cannot afford to get Voter IDs? If that's even remotely true, then there's a much bigger problem in the areas that are politically dominated by ... Democratic politicians.
Maybe instead of talking down about your favorite constituents, you all should actually try helping them?
It does not have to account for garaged cars. All it has to do is show valid predictions. The criteria here is not to capture every single vehicle; it is to record a sample of sufficient size. That's how poling works. No one has to know how YOU voted. All they need is 1200 sufficiently random people to accurately predict the election.
How about a moderation of -1 pedantic.
I think this story could have been bundled into the recent story about abuses of technology. We could be using computers to increase our freedoms and give us more and better choices, but over-controlled elections are NOT helping. Why bother to vote when the outcome has already been so heavily manipulated?
Let me focus on the specific problem of gerrymandering that this technology would obviously support (too well). Partisan redistricting has two principles, and both of them are based on predicting how people will vote next time. So far the main data has been prior voting patterns, but this will help YUGEly. Principle 1 is making your districts safe, which usually means a cushion around 5%. Principle 2 is wasting your opponent's votes in concentrated sacrificial districts, which is normally required because you would barely need to tweak the districts if you actually had more voters. The worse abuses of partisan gerrymandering are when actual minorities of the voters get to "win" the legislatures. (We've actually seen that in recent elections for the House of so-called Representatives, thanks to diabolical gerrymandering in such states as Texas.)
So let me switch angles to a possible computer-based solution in two parts:
Part 1: Guest voting. If you don't like your own district (for example because it is so gerrymandered that your vote is meaningless), then you would be able to reject your ballot and vote as a guest in one of the neighboring districts. The more they gerrymander the districts, the MORE options voters would have and the LESS predictable the outcomes of the elections.
Part 2: Allocate the voting power based on the actual outcome of the election. Easiest to make this clear with a simple example using three districts, A, B, and C. Assume half the voters of District A decide to vote as guests in Districts B and C, with one quarter going to each district. Then whoever wins A only gets 1/2 vote in the legislature, and the legislators from B and C get 1-1/4 votes each. The total of the 3 districts is still 3 votes in the legislature, but each voter gets truly equal voting power in the legislature. (Non-voters, too. Each non-voter gets the same 0% representation, but that's true now, too.)
An amusing side effect is that the winner still has incentive to actually represent ALL of the voters who voted for AND against him, because even those negative votes still contributed to his influence in the legislature. Also the voters are motivated to vote because they know they are increasing the voting power in whichever district they pick.
So let me be the first to admit that it will never happen. Certainly not via an evolutionary path, much as I prefer evolution to the alternatives. No "Fantasy" mods on Slashdot, eh?
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
If Slashdot had a better mechanism for aggregating and displaying and filtering based on public reputation, then I would adjust my settings to render such trolls (possibly a paid professional?) invisible. (I think you're referring to 5161731? Probably just a fresh sock puppet, but I'd also tweak my setting to deal with fresh sock puppets.)
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Wouldn't it be easier and more accurate to simply look at voter registration records? Everything else is mostly a guess.
Snopes lost all credibility years ago...
No problem. They're just providing an information hub. Since they cited sources we can assume Snopes isn't credible and go a level deeper.
Yes. Why should this be a problem?
If the credibility of the sites Snopes links to is highly questionable then that's something that can be demonstrated. I propose we start with the local news station, WHNT. http://whnt.com/2015/09/30/alea-announces-driver-license-office-closures-includes-two-in-north-alabama/
According to wikipedia there is an WHNT TV station in the area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHNT-TV.
A short look at their front page shows no obvious political baiting that would lead one to believe this site just exists to push an agenda. (Try this test with Fox News' front page...)
I'm going to ignore the rest of your comment because I think we need to determine what the facts are before we can have any sort of sensible discussion on the results of those facts.
So how is this different than voting records that have
names addresses voting history and party affiliation?
The reality is cars, voting like TV news is a market and market
share and differentiation to keep the market is critical.
Some think that FoX vs. CNN is about morality and politics...
it is about market share.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. Mark Twain.
my car in front of the brothel does not prove anything. I did not hae sex with that woman!!!!!!
What alternative action do you propose that Sanders should have taken instead of running as a Democrat?
You do realize that both the Democratic and Republican parties have made state ballot access laws almost impossible for a 3rd party candidate to be in the ballot in all 50 states, right? And that's just one of the impediments to running as a 3rd-party or an independent candidate. Sanders did exactly what anyone who is serious about running for president needs to do.