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DigitalTrends @digitaltrends.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

@npr.org - Computer scientist #JoyBuolamwini was a graduate student at #MIT when she made a startling discovery: The facial recognition software program she was working on couldn't detect her dark skin; it only registered her presence when she put on a white mask. www.npr.org/2023/11/28/1... #AI

'If you have a face, you have a place in the conversation about AI,' expert says

Computer scientist Joy Buolamwini was a graduate student at MIT when she made a startling discovery: The facial recognition software program she was working on couldn't detect her dark skin; it only registered her presence when she put on a white mask.
It was Buolamwini's first encounter with what she came to call the "coded gaze."

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