AI Stereotyping Gate! or: The First Yoel (Inbar appearance on the pod)
More of a Comment Than a Question
English - April 29, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 52.5 MBSocial Sciences Science science psychology twitter social science Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode we are joined by famous podcaster Yoel Inbar (who we also found out is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto) to discuss a recent controversy surrounding this paper in PNAS, and the ethics of training machine learning models to judge and modify facial images in ways consistent with the stereotypical impressions of humans.
We also briefly discussed the dumbĀ stick-figure meme people have been talking about.
Here are just a few pieces of research on people's ability to judge personality from physical appearance:
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.994.7&rep=rep1&type=pdf
https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1348/000712606X109648
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2006-20823-006