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The Telegraph Google Photos assigns ‘gorilla‘ tag to photos of black people http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/11710136/Google-Photos-assigns-gorilla-tag-to-photos-of-black-people.html …
11:20AM BST 01 Jul 2015
Google has removed the ‘gorilla’ tag from its new Photos app, after a user noticed it had filed a number of photos of him and his black friend in an automatically generated album named ‘gorillas’.
The affected user, computer programmer Jacky Alciné, took to Twitter to post proof of the Google Photos error, along with the question: “What kind of sample image data you collected that would result in this son?”
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Huge Google Photos facial recognition error noted: http://cnb.cx/1LDk2bT
Google engineer Yonata Zunger told of problems such as not seeing faces in pictures at all, or even identifying some people as dogs.
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Mehul (Mike) Patel Google‘s artificial intelligence interprets photos as animal faces, with creepy results http://bit.ly/1GQiHIr
The Telegraph 
Google has been one of the world’s biggest backers of artificial intelligence development, investing heavily in machine learning technology, including with last year’s acquisition of British company DeepMind.
The company is developing “neural networks” that can spot patterns in pictures to identify them. The technology already allows it to recognise animals and faces in its new photos app, for example.
However, tweak the network in a certain way, and the results can be rather strange.
In an experiment, engineers at Google’s research labs ran various pictures through its neural network, asking the software to identify patterns in the images and then alter that image to exaggerate the patterns.
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In this particular instance, the neural network had largely been trained by pictures of animals, so any image sent through the feedback loop would be returned as a disturbing collage of animal faces.
“The results are intriguing—even a relatively simple neural network can be used to over-interpret an image, just like as children we enjoyed watching clouds and interpreting the random shapes,” Google engineers Alexander Mordvintsev, Christopher Olah and Mike Tyka said in a blogpost.
“This network was trained mostly on images of animals, so naturally it tends to interpret shapes as animals. But because the data is stored at such a high abstraction, the results are an interesting remix of these learned features.”
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FreeMalaysia Today
Google apologizes photo app tagged black couple ‘gorillas’
Google released its overhauled photo app for smartphones in May, touting it as a major advancement in sorting, organizing, and handling pictures.
SAN FRANCISCO: Google apologized after an identification program in its new photo app put a “gorillas” label on a picture of a black couple.
“We’re appalled and genuinely sorry that this happened,” a Google representative said late Wednesday in an email to AFP.
“We are taking immediate action to prevent this type of result from appearing.”
Google apologized and went to work fixing the problem earlier in the week after the offensive blunder was pointed out in a Twitter message from @JackyAlcine.
“Google Photos, y’all (messed) up,” Jacky Alcine said in a series of emphatic messages.
“My friend’s not a gorilla.”
Google released its overhauled photo app for smartphones in May, touting it as a major advancement in sorting, organizing, and handling pictures.
Google engineer Yonatan Zunger put the blame for the labeling on the artificial intelligence software designed to let machines learn how to recognize places, people and objects in pictures.
“Sheesh,” Zunger said in the exchange of Twitter messages. “High on my list of bugs you never want to see happen. Shudder.”
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If you’re black, #Google photos may have tagged you as a gorilla: http://buff.ly/1JwLKYm
Google apologises after new app automatically tagged photos of black people as ‘gorillas’. http://bit.ly/1NxPp6n
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