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You do know that Google basically slapped a patch on that one right?

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/12/16882408/google-racist-go...



I’m confused. I read that article and it has this:

> But, as a new report from Wired shows, nearly three years on and Google hasn’t really fixed anything. The company has simply blocked its image recognition algorithms from identifying gorillas altogether — preferring, presumably, to limit the service rather than risk another miscategorization.

Is that not an example of human intervention in ML?


Yes but then they fixed it right.


Fixing it right would be re-training the ML algo.... they basically told the algo to never ID anything as a gorilla (even actual gorillas)




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