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Google Censors Gorillas Rather Than Risk Them Being Mislabelled As Black People, But Who Does That Help?
Two years ago, the object-recognition algorithm fuelling Google Images told a black software engineer, Jacky Alciné, his friends were gorillas. Given the long, racist history of white people claiming the people of the African diaspora are primates instead of human beings, Alciné was predictably upset. As was his employer: Google.
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Amazon Employees Use Pikachu To Test Automated Grocery Store, Which Is A Weird Thing To Do
Amazon is still struggling to get its automated grocery store, Amazon Go, to function right. Who knew it would be so hard to build a brick-and-mortar store with sensors and gadgets instead of cashiers? But in a recent test of the company’s experimental Seattle store, some of Jeff Bezos’ employees got a little weird. They…