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by julianpye 4069 days ago
This kind of reminds me of the 'Better off Ted' episode, where the company's new motion detection system does not detect any of the African Americans in the office.
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> This kind of reminds me of the 'Better off Ted' episode, where the company's new motion detection system does not detect any of the African Americans in the office.

Which is itself a reference to real-life results involving motion detection/computer vision/image processing (this was a particularly bad problem in the earlier days of the field, but still persists today to some extent).

Here is a great video showing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DT3tQqgRM

I think I just like their banter.

Right, because people who have chosen to get dark tattoos are just like people who were born with darker skin.
Both cases illustrate how the technology fails to adapt to the physical world.