HP’s Facial Non-Recognition
A black man named Desi, along with a white woman named Wanda, has quite comically figured out that new Hewlett-Packard computers touting "face recognition" software are embarrassingly inadequate in detecting black faces.A black man named Desi, along with a white woman named Wanda, has quite comically figured out that new Hewlett-Packard computers touting “face recognition” software are embarrassingly inadequate in detecting black faces.
Hewlett-Packard responded in an e-mail to Bloomberg News that the issue may be due to “foreground lighting” problems. –JCL
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