Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Well, it is awkward, but Hewlett Packard you still have some explaining to do.

Anyone seen this YouTube video yet? It basically shows a man and a woman using an HP computer and how HP's face recognition software does not recognize an African-American man...but does recognize his white co-worker. The official HP line is that lighting is to blame...and honestly, I believe that is the case (sorry, I don't subscribe to the racist computer theory), but still, the whole situation just looks incredibly bad.

So...am I being naive? Is there something else here? Or is this just a situation of technology failing us in an awkward way. You tell me...

LINK: HP Blames lighting for face-recognition software failure

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