If You Don’t See Someone, Say Something And Help Them Belong (Part 1)

Drew Schillinger
Nov 4 · 6 min read
Facial Recognition algorithms oftentimes fail those people who are under-represented within the high-tech engineering companies programming the AI (photo courtesy of https://hub.packtpub.com/)

We live in a world of “AI,” ranging from automatic soap dispensers and hand driers in our public restrooms to self-driving cars on the street. However, there is a problem waiting to be solved in this space: diversity.

One search for “facial recognition and race” will turn up copious examples of AI getting it wrong — surveillance technology, such…

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Drew Schillinger

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