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Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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What Is the Difference Between Image Recognition and Face Recognition?

Jonathan Van Ness: Computation is computing. It's doing math. When it comes to facial recognition, then it inherently would have to be racist. Facial recognition systems generally are better at recognizing light skin that they are recognizing dark skin and they're generally better at recognizing men than they are at recognizing women. Also people with disabilities often have trouble being recognized as human by facial recognition systems.

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