The administration has race and ethnicity data for just 52 percent of vaccine recipients. Next week, it will begin shipping doses directly to clinics in underserved communities. Farm workers waiting to receive a coronavirus vaccine at Tudor Ranch in Mecca, Calif., late last month. Jae C. Hong/Associated Press WASHINGTON — Federal …
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Datasets are a primary driver of progress in computer vision, and many computer vision applications require datasets that include human faces. These datasets often have labels denoting racial identity, expressed as a category assigned to faces. But historically, little attention has been paid to the validity, construction, and stability of …
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Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now An algorithm Twitter uses to decide how photos are cropped in people’s timelines appears to be automatically choosing to display the faces of white people over people with darker skin. The bias was discovered by Twitter users in recent days …
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Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Amazon applied science manager Dr. Nashlie Sephus has lived in New York City, Atlanta, Silicon Valley, and Seoul while pursuing her education and work in machine learning. She knows the look of a community that’s thriving from technology and innovation, …
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