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Driverless cars worse at detecting children and darker-skinned pedestrians say scientists (www.kcl.ac.uk)

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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.

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[-] Rinox@feddit.it 58 points 1 year ago

Isn't that true for humans as well? I know I find it harder to see children due to the small size and dark skinned people at night due to, you know, low contrast (especially if they are wearing dark clothes).

Human vision be racist and ageist

Ps: but yes, please do improve the algorithms

[-] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 7 points 1 year ago

Part of the children problem is distinguishing between 'small' and 'far away'. Humans seem reasonably good at it, but from what I've seen AIs aren't there yet.

[-] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah This probably accounts for 90% of the issue.

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