The Guardian notes that the finding raises concerns about the ethics of face-detection technology and privacy concerns for LGBT people. The team of scientists found that an algorithm was able to tell whether the men were gay or straight 81 percent of the time, as compared to 74 percent for women. Researchers took features from the facial images using “deep neural networks” - which is a sophisticated mathematical system. Scientists have discovered that artificial intelligence is capable of figuring out whether someone is gay or straight simply by looking at pictures of their faces, the Guardianreports.Ī study out of Stanford University, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, analyzed a sample of more than 35,000 faces of men and women from a U.S.
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