Microsoft 'Improves' Racist Facial Recognition Software

In a self-congratulatory move, Microsoft announced some major improvements today to its fundamentally biased facial recognition software. The Azure-based Face API was criticized in a research paper earlier this year for its error rate—as high as 20.8 percent—when attempting to identify the gender of people of color,…

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Source: Gizmodo – Microsoft ‘Improves’ Racist Facial Recognition Software