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by tyrust 3856 days ago
It's not about tact, it's just the algorithm doing its best. In order for the algorithm to be capable of "tact", it needs to recognize that it's looking at a person (or whatever). And if it recognized a person, then there wouldn't have been this problem because it would just label it correctly.
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You can certainly include tact. The algorithm thinks it's more likely it's 51%-49% gorilla/person split, but a level above that chooses person as the answer as even though it'll be wrong more often, the impact of the error is lower.

This is why you shouldn't just train your system to hit higher accuracy figures but also investigate the type of errors it's making. This needs to be done while thinking about your specific use case and domain.