{"id":32455,"date":"2021-04-30T08:13:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T08:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=32455"},"modified":"2021-04-30T08:13:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T08:13:14","slug":"these-people-arent-real-but-could-help-tackle-bias-in-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=32455","title":{"rendered":"These people aren&#8217;t real but could help tackle bias in tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Facial recognition software can be used to unlock phones, check passports and catch criminals. <\/p>\n<p>But it doesn\u2019t work equally well for people of all ethnic backgrounds, and when it goes wrong there can be serious consequences. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hoped that a new type of AI that generates fake faces to train algorithms can help solve the problem.<\/p>\n<p><i class=\"ssrcss-po6dm6-ItalicText e5tfeyi1\">A film for <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p04d42vf\" class=\"ssrcss-hiczm3-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">People Fixing the World<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-po6dm6-ItalicText e5tfeyi1\"> by Craig Langran, Ben Lister and Talia Franco.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/stories-56895935\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facial recognition software can be used to unlock phones, check passports and catch criminals. But it doesn\u2019t work equally well for people of all ethnic backgrounds, and when it goes wrong there can be serious consequences. It\u2019s hoped that a new type of AI that generates fake faces to train [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/p09fwvr7.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}