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The WSJ asked visitors to San Francisco’s Fisherman Wharf for permission to photograph them, then asked which they liked best. We took their photos outside on a partly cloudy day, with the normal wide-angle lens on three phones—Google’s Pixel 6, Samsung’s Galaxy S21 and Apple’s iPhone 13 Mini. Justin Sullivan/Getty, Cover: Google/AFP/Getty Source link

Google’s artificial intelligence and machine-learning algorithms have in the past been criticized for how they deal with darker skin tones, including mistakenly tagging photos of Black people as gorillas. The company apologized and said it would fix its software. Now, it’s using AI to power what it calls “the world’s most inclusive camera.” The goal of the Real Tone image processing in Google’s new Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro smartphones is to “more accurately highlight the nuances… Source link

Evening commuters make their way toward a New Jersey Transit train platform at Penn Station in New York City. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Alphabet‘s Google told Reuters this week it is developing an alternative to the industry standard method for classifying skin tones, which a growing chorus of technology researchers and dermatologists says is inadequate for assessing whether products are biased against people of color. At issue is a six-color scale known as Fitzpatrick Skin Type (FST), which… Source link

June 18 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google told Reuters this week it is developing an alternative to the industry standard method for classifying skin tones, which a growing chorus of technology researchers and dermatologists says is inadequate for assessing whether products are biased against people of color. At issue is a six-color scale known as Fitzpatrick Skin Type (FST), which dermatologists have used since the 1970s. Tech companies now rely on it to categorize people and… Source link

Google announced last Tuesday that it developed a new artificial intelligence tool to help people identify skin conditions. Like any other symptom-checking tool, it’ll face questions over how accurately it can perform that task. But experts say it should also be scrutinized for how it influences people’s behavior: does it make them more likely to go to the doctor? Less likely? These types of symptom-checking tools — which usually clarify that they can’t diagnose health conditions… Source link

Consumers frequently turn to Google to search for information on skin, hair and nail issues, to the tune of 10 billion search queries each year. But users only find relevant information online related to a rash on their arm or a mole on their wrist about 13% of the time, according to Peggy Bui, M.D., product manager at Google Health, the tech giant’s health and wellness division. Google is using its artificial intelligence chops to help consumers, and potentially doctors, better… Source link

It has taken three years to develop, and has been trained on a dataset of 65,000 images of diagnosed conditions, as well as millions of images showing marks people were concerned about, and thousands of pictures of healthy skin, in all shades and tones. Source link

Google is taking one of the most significant steps yet by a big tech company into healthcare, launching an AI-powered tool that will assist consumers in self-diagnosing hundreds of skin conditions. Derm Assist is the first of its kind and will launch in Europe this year before being aimed at the nearly 2bn people globally suffering from skin conditions ranging from acne to melanoma. Users will have to sign into their Google accounts, upload images of their medical condition… Source link

Meghan Markle nearly left Oprah speechless in an interview that aired on CBS on Sunday, when she made not-so-veiled allegations of racism within the royal family. Meghan, who is of mixed race, claimed that when she was pregnant with her and Prince Harry’s first child, Archie, a member of the family expressed concerns to Harry about the possibility of their child having a dark skin tone. On top of that, Meghan said she and Harry were told that Archie, the first person of color born into the… Source link