TL;DR
While Google’s camera algorithms can do some incredible stuff, they aren’t so incredible for people of color.
Algorithms simply aren’t optimized for darker skin tones and certain types of hair styles.
At Google I/O 2021, Google made a commitment to changing this inequity and discussed its progress so far.
Smartphone cameras can do some incredible things. Using software smarts, they can blur out a background while keeping the focus on a subject. They can alter the coloring, fix exposure, and even add motion to static images.
However, one thing camera algorithms haven’t been so good at is working well for people of color. Due to inherent racial biases, algorithms are built on databases filled with white people. This can make PoC feel excluded even from their own photos.
Google s new AI technology could make Assistant more human-like
You might have long conversations with your phone or speaker.
It responds with logical, consistent answers rather than raw data.
The technology is still quite early.
Google Assistant can usually only answer questions with raw facts at best, or a confused “sorry, I don’t understand” at worst. Soon, however, it might be almost as elegant as talking to another person. Google has used its I/O conference to introduce a LaMDA project (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) that promises more natural conversations with AI helpers.
Unlike with typical AI language models, Google trained LaMDA on dialogue to help it catch and participate in the subtleties of open-ended conversation. It can respond to the context of a given chat in a way that makes sense without simply spitting out facts. An AI could participate in a meandering conversation that leaps from a TV show to its filming location and local food, for instance
There are loads of smartphones out there on the market today, and we here at
Android Authority endeavor to cover them all. But what about the phones we actually use every day as our daily drivers? After all, it’s one thing to review a phone and call it one of the best you can buy, but another thing entirely to use one as your primary device.
We did a Team AA daily driver poll back in 2018, as well as another one last year. With some great phones already released this year, we thought now is as good a time as any to do a 2021 edition of this poll to see how things have changed in the last twelve months.