[HN] Self-driving cars less likely to detect children and people of color
[HN] Self-driving cars less likely to detect children and people of color
www.businessinsider.com The pedestrian detection systems in self-driving cars are less likely to detect children and people of color, study suggests
Researchers say the results stem from biases present in open-source AI, on which self-driving cars rely.
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Seems this will be always the case. Small objects are harder to detect than larger objects. Higher contrast objects are easier to detect than lower contrast objects. Even if detection gets 1000x better, these cases will still be true. Do you introduce artificial error to make things fair?