Comment by vvanders
8 years ago
That show was incredibly on the mark, if Black Mirror was a comedy it would have been that show.
The episode about the black engineer who isn't detected by the motion sensors is basically straight out of HP's webcam fiasco[1](although the show takes it to the logical and hilarious extreme).
[1] http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/race/2009/12/hp-webcam-c...
Here's that episode on Hulu for anyone who happens to have a subscription and want to check it out:
https://www.hulu.com/watch/81765
In my opinion, BOT is one of the best comedy shows of the past decade and that episode is widely considered to be the best one.
This has been a real problem with facial recognition. Faces used to train engines are typically Caucasian, so the ability to distinguish other ethnicities is quite sub-par.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/the-u...
Isn't there a problem with shadow contrast which makes features more difficult to pick out on darker skinned faces? I vaguely recall an East Asian developer giving that reason for why he developed on Western data-sets.
Wouldnt it make more sense then to develop _not_ on the easycase but the hard ones?
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Most likely it’s an issue with contrast and overall darker skin colour.
Can be solved by illuminating the face with IR though, which should work across all ethnicities.
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We call 'em occidental datasets 'round these parts.
I find this phenomenon of protecting oneself from being called racist fascinating. Your opinion is not exactly racist, but you had to bring up another minority, in case someone accuses you?
I imagine China has fixed that problem, given their present day "1984-esque" surveillance tech.
I loved that show so damn much. I was crushed when it was canceled.
Black Mirror IS a comedy. Nothing in it is realistic.
Don't take it seriously.
Just because nothing in it is realistic, does not make it a comedy.
Just because two sentences are next to each other, does not make it conditional on the first.
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