Aren't we all primates?
The entire point of the article is to highlight what was an unexpected, unanticipated, and most unfortunate AI error. This is a learning experience, pun intended.
> You only have a story worth reading when it’s against an underprivileged minority.
To some extent. But I think there would also be a story if some medicine would work badly on white people, or men. The problem here is that these labels would be there for everyone to see and comment on.
If facebook would live by their own rules, they would ban the AI team from using fb accounts.
And yes, having less of something is correctly called “losing” it in the English language. That was not a correction.
So while it's technically true all humans are primates, the selective emphasis and its connotations is an issue.
(Weirdly, there's some substantial overlap between people who take offense at the idea they're related to other primates and feel a little freer to emphasize the relationship of a human out-group to other primates, which possibly illuminates something about the problems.)
Which, by the way, is related to the discussed problem.
The embarrassing thing about these phenomena is that a machine holds up a mirror to us. Naked and ugly.
To 'patch' the mirror won't change a thing. Especially when he is right under the right circumstances. In the right context.
I wonder what would an AI trained with pictures from India would show.