OrbingStorm Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 Google Photos' face recognition mislabels two people as gorillas Google Photos' powerful face recognition engine might still need improvement.On Sunday, Google had to scurry to fix an algorithm that categorized a photo of two black friends as gorillas in Google Photos.Jacky Alcine, a 21-year-old programmer living in Brooklyn, tweeted a screen grab of Google Photos' mistake and wrote, "Google Photos, y'all f---ed up. My friend's not a gorilla."Alcine's tweet immediately caught attention from Google and received a reply within two hours. Yonatan Zunger, chief architect of Social at Google, reached out to Alcine and asked permission to access his account in order to examine the data and work on a solution.Google's app has an algorithm that uses auto-tagging to group photos together. It can automatically detect different faces, places and objects and categorize them in folders. So if a user is looking for pictures of their niece, they can just search for faces and Google Photos will pull up a folder of photos of that person."I understand HOW this happens; the problem is moreso on the WHY," Alcine wrote on Twitter. Source http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/google-photos-algorithm-mislabeled-people-gorillas-article-1.2278049 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtmulc Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 Reply from Google's Chief Social Architect Yonatan Zunger: "Holy fuck. G+ CA here. No, this is not how you determine someone's target market. This is 100 percent not okay."Google seems to be doing their best to correct the situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 funny hahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
212eta Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 Google... :hurt: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virge Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 So Donald Trump is a programmer for Google now ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASIO Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ballistic Gelatin Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 So Donald Trump is a programmer for Google now ?No, he's not that smart.He is, however, an ignoramus. Commentator George Will said as much a year or two ago, and I heartily agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sliuown Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 Hahaha brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudrax Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 :lmao: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 Serves the young clits. of this generation right - for pouting at every photo op. :tehe: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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