How AI Sees the World — Image Recognition & Algorithmic Bias

Alexis Wang
DataDrivenInvestor
Published in
8 min readDec 11, 2019

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Humans underestimate the power of vision. A lot more goes on than what meets the “eye” (get it?)

A closeup of a brown eye.
Photo by Patrick Brinksma on Unsplash

Okay, ignoring that horrendous pun.

Humans are able to see from birth, so we often take it for granted. Trying to teach a machine to see from scratch, however, is a whole other ballpark. But first, what even is “seeing” in the first place…

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