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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Friend or Foe? Robots and A.I.

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

News, Daily News, Comedy

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Technology is advancing faster than we can keep up with, but are those advances to the betterment of society, or the detriment? Are the robots coming for all our jobs? Will A.I. takeover the world? The Daily Show News Team get answers to those big questions in this throwback compilation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, I'm Phil Maker Charles Hood and I'm Entertainment Journalist Drew Taylor.

0:03.7

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0:08.8

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0:11.8

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0:14.4

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0:17.4

you'll get that all in this podcast.

0:19.3

Listen to Light the Fuse, the official Mission Impossible podcast,

0:22.2

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0:26.0

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0:29.7

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0:34.0

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0:40.5

Official recognition software is the newest way to unlock your phone, tag your friends,

0:44.0

or create Snapchat nightmares.

0:46.4

But there's one aspect of facial recognition that still needs some work.

0:50.8

Is facial recognition technology biased?

0:54.4

A researcher at MIT found that the technology works best for white men.

0:59.9

Users with darker complexions saw more instances of being misidentified.

1:05.0

I found that the training data that's being used for facial recognition

1:09.6

is then as representative of the variety of human skin tones and facial structures.

1:15.2

Many facial recognition systems use the same data sets.

1:18.5

If those sets contain mostly white faces,

1:21.3

all the products that use that data can inherit those same biases.

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