Driverless cars worse at detecting children and darker-skinned pedestrians say scientists::Researchers call for tighter regulations following major age and race-based discrepancies in AI autonomous systems.

  • zephyreks@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    If the computer vision model can’t detect edges around a human-shaped object, that’s usually a dataset issue or a sensor (data collection) issue… And it sure as hell isn’t a sensor issue because humans do the task just fine.

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      1 year ago

      Do they? People driving at night quite often have a hard time seeing pedestrians wearing dark colors.

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      And it sure as hell isn’t a sensor issue because humans do the task just fine.

      Sounds like you have never reviewed dash camera video or low light photography.