Calling Bullshit 5.5: Criminal Machine Learning

To illustrate the garbage-in garbage-out principle, we delve into a recent paper that purports to automatically infer criminality using face images; we call BS based on an alternative explanation of the results.
April 26, 2017
Course: INFO 198 / BIOL 106B. University of Washington
Instructors: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West
Synopsis: Our world is saturated with bullshit. Learn to detect and defuse it.
The course will be offered as a 1-credit seminar this spring through the Information School at the University of Washington. We aim to expand it to a 3 or 4 credit course for 2017-2018. For those who cannot attend in person, we aim to videotape the lectures this spring and make video clips freely available on the web.
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Video edited by Bum Mook Oh
Music by Chris Zabriskie: Prelude No.7

[@petitio_principii]

I thought software were learning how to commit crimes.
Isn't it a bit of a stretch to say that the non-criminal pictures are "smiling"? It seems more the difference between relaxed lips versus a "proto-smile" lip tightness, with only some light tension of the muscles around the lips, without significant action of those that pull the lips and the mouth edges upward and outward, and open the mouth, showing teeth. But I guess it can still be called a detection of subtle expression nevertheless.

[@5541matt]

Will the AI sue itself for privacy infringement?

[@royblackoncrack]

Lombroso 2.0

[@ConniHutton]

Damn shame