For fight or flight reactions its quite ok to judge by the appearance, but its wiser to judge by the "do it look like a local threat?" rather than "whats the skin color?",
But often, people aren't judged solely on skin color. Two middle aged black guys in expensive suits walking in a convenience store at night will make a completely different impression on people as a couple of loud kids in sweatpants. People often accuse police officers of stopping a guy "just because he's black", but in reality, they look at dozens of clues, of which skin color is just one.
Now, say a white kid steals a candy and a black kid steals a candy. A decent but racist cop sees candy stealing as a thing kids do, so he will give a stern talk about rights and wrongs and will make the kid apologize. Unless the kid is black, in which case he is already a lost cause
Obviously, the punishment for committing a crime should not depend on the background of the perp. This is something that can be fixed.
Now, why are whites not profiled as “drug abusers”?
If the AI was clever enough to understand that bias is a problem, how it works and how to self-correct, it would be able to get past the bias in the training data.
The bias represents itself as a pattern in the training data, as a result of patterns in reality. Why should the AI consider some patterns to be "a problem" ? What's your criterium ?
Or you could get real and realize that people ARE spending billions of dollars on cures for both type I and type II DM
90% of the people could be cured (or prevented from getting sick in the first place) using a better (low carb) diet, for a fraction of the cost. Of course, the problem is that you can't make billions in profit telling people to adopt a sensible diet.
I agree that Apple has nothing to do with this, though.
It's when racism is part of the basic makeup of society. If you want to put a stop to it I think you kinda need to take a hammer to it
You can't stop it, if there's a real and fundamental bias. Black people have genes that are optimized for living near the equator. White people have genes optimized for living at higher latitudes, where it gets cold, and there's no food in the winter unless you plan in advance and learn to cooperate with your enemies.
Why don't we profile whites for crime, since a lot of white folks commit crimes?
On average, white people commit fewer crimes, so it would be stupid to profile them because they are white. You could still profile them based on other criteria, for instance the make of car they drive, or the neighborhood they live in.
It's a very intellectually lazy way to deal with the world, which many people sadly do.
They do it because it works. I'm sure you also take a lot of shortcuts in judging people. If someone cuts in line in front of you in the store, do you always have the same reaction, or is your reaction different whether the person is wearing a biker jacket or a sundress ?
Dark matter is a model. As long as the model matches the observations, and there isn't a simpler model that does the same, the model is held to be correct.
If the distribution of paychecks vs expenses is a problem, you're not saving enough. Put a few months worth of paychecks in a savings account, and you don't need to juggle after that.
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When they are going in the moantins and only get water from snow you ad salt the same applies here
That's why you should only eat the yellow snow.
For fight or flight reactions its quite ok to judge by the appearance, but its wiser to judge by the "do it look like a local threat?" rather than "whats the skin color?",
But often, people aren't judged solely on skin color. Two middle aged black guys in expensive suits walking in a convenience store at night will make a completely different impression on people as a couple of loud kids in sweatpants. People often accuse police officers of stopping a guy "just because he's black", but in reality, they look at dozens of clues, of which skin color is just one.
A human only needs around 1l of water a day to survive.
In the desert ?
Now, say a white kid steals a candy and a black kid steals a candy. A decent but racist cop sees candy stealing as a thing kids do, so he will give a stern talk about rights and wrongs and will make the kid apologize. Unless the kid is black, in which case he is already a lost cause
Obviously, the punishment for committing a crime should not depend on the background of the perp. This is something that can be fixed.
Now, why are whites not profiled as “drug abusers”?
Maybe because they aren't causing problems ?
There is also "top down" A.I. in the setting which is really just a massive collection of lookup tables, pattern recognition and so on.
Bottom up learning also works through pattern recognition. And nobody uses lookup tables.
Nope, nothing like that is happening. Algorithms which work with speech are still stupid as fuck and have exactly zero understanding of the language
They are steadily improving, so they are "getting closer" to the goal, even though we can agree there's still a long way to go.
If the AI was clever enough to understand that bias is a problem, how it works and how to self-correct, it would be able to get past the bias in the training data.
The bias represents itself as a pattern in the training data, as a result of patterns in reality. Why should the AI consider some patterns to be "a problem" ? What's your criterium ?
Or you could get real and realize that people ARE spending billions of dollars on cures for both type I and type II DM
90% of the people could be cured (or prevented from getting sick in the first place) using a better (low carb) diet, for a fraction of the cost. Of course, the problem is that you can't make billions in profit telling people to adopt a sensible diet.
I agree that Apple has nothing to do with this, though.
Economic circumstance is not inherent is it?
It could be. Your personality influences the circumstances you live in.
and lazy correlation=causation thinking.
No, there doesn't need to be causation. Just having a correlation is enough grounds for bias.
It's when racism is part of the basic makeup of society. If you want to put a stop to it I think you kinda need to take a hammer to it
You can't stop it, if there's a real and fundamental bias. Black people have genes that are optimized for living near the equator. White people have genes optimized for living at higher latitudes, where it gets cold, and there's no food in the winter unless you plan in advance and learn to cooperate with your enemies.
Where are you taking your hammer to fix that ?
Why don't we profile whites for crime, since a lot of white folks commit crimes?
On average, white people commit fewer crimes, so it would be stupid to profile them because they are white. You could still profile them based on other criteria, for instance the make of car they drive, or the neighborhood they live in.
In the overt scenario blacks get profiled for crime
If they'd stop committing the crimes, the profiling would stop too.
There's a simple solution: fix the training data
The training data is fine, it's the reality that sucks.
It's a very intellectually lazy way to deal with the world, which many people sadly do.
They do it because it works. I'm sure you also take a lot of shortcuts in judging people. If someone cuts in line in front of you in the store, do you always have the same reaction, or is your reaction different whether the person is wearing a biker jacket or a sundress ?
Sorry, but some of us are just born this way.
Yes, some, but let's not forget the millions of others who can easily prevent it by quitting the damn sugars.
The holy grail would be for people to stop eating so much damn sugar.
They have to do something. This is something.
It is unscientific to think our measurements couldn't be in error.
It is even more unscientific to assume the models are in error, just so you can wave them away.
Dark matter is a model. As long as the model matches the observations, and there isn't a simpler model that does the same, the model is held to be correct.
Does slashdot use an AI to check stories for duplicates, and does anyone understand how it works ?
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Internet is decent @ 100/33 Mbps, but I only get about 25Mbps over WiFi, and about 30-40Mbps over 4G.
Heck the cell phones even count as broadband by the legal definition of it.
My 4G phone is faster than my home WiFi in most places in my house.
If the distribution of paychecks vs expenses is a problem, you're not saving enough. Put a few months worth of paychecks in a savings account, and you don't need to juggle after that.
This country really needs to make basic finance management a required course in high school
That's the easy part. The hard part is actually doing it.
My cap is a few hundred, and the premium is 150/month (p/p). But then I don't live in the US.