Google’s New Dermatology App Wasn’t Designed for People With Darker Skin
The company trained the system to recognize different skin conditions. But like Google itself, the app's data has a diversity problem.
Hasnain says:
This is an amazing (not) defense: claiming that the ground truth they had is racist so there’s nothing wrong with this app being biased either.
“A Google spokesperson told Motherboard that that the entire field of dermatology suffers from a lack of data and images of non-white patients and that accounting for that problem was at the forefront of researchers minds as they designed the app, which they plan to further refine before its public release.
“Our AI-powered dermatology assist tool is the culmination of more than three years of research,” “
Posted on 2021-05-21T05:57:03+0000