Just reading the title, sounded like a great way to automate racism.
And then I read:
This is just AI Phrenology, a continuation of the "scientific racism" movement that was invented to provide a justification for colonialism, slavery, genocide and eugenics
So uh yea, doesn't seem like a great idea.
Ahh, phrenology is apparently scientific if you do it with AI?
I fucking hate this timeline
Those who produce MBAs at it again.
I used to joke about, but there really is MBA-> fascism pipeline going on
When your education revolves around dehumanizing people and turning them into abstract numbers, it's not that far of a leap, unfortunately.
I don't know which machine learning textbook it was, but in the first few pages of it, the author warns about the stupidity and dangers of this exact same thing 🤷♂️
We are one step closer to building the AI that can determine which one is cuter: a specific photo of a kitten or one of a puppy. Just imagine what you could do with such technology!
Yeah what could possibly go wrong?
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Shitty title. Business school professors claim they trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces.
The article talks about why that is such a stupid and terrible proposal.
They've been doing this with "natural intelligence" for ages.
Makes sense. How physiognomy was used in the 19. century was bullshit (phrenology with skull measuring and whatnot) but the face is a display of your genetical base, your hormonal exposure while growing up and of your health currently. Btw, that's why the face is important in dating.
And you do use it the same way in social context, although subsconsciously.
Its also affected by which direction the sun hits your house from, your commute to work (if applicable) and what kind of diet you had when growing up.
Look, i'm an Asperger and use the same mechanism regularly, to guess how the person would react. It's not obscure and not bullshit. People just don't like that they are more transparent than they think.
Makes sense.
Sure if you know nothing about biology, sociology, "AI", etc.
This just one scary side of AI.
The idea of corporate level integration of this stuff is straight out of Black Mirror.
We're right around the corner from the corpo AI keeping tabs on your pupil dilation as you read your emails. If we aren't there already.
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