That Time Proctorio Became a Cartoon Villain: Foibles of Machine Learning
Channel: Civil Engineering with Tanya J. Laird
Date: 2023-08-21

This is a clip from a longer discussion, "A Table Saw, Machine Learning, and the Sins of Man and Machine."

https://youtu.be/g8HXg1p8I4U
Full Video Description:

This video discusses machine learning, using a machine vision-based table saw safety mechanism as a jumping off point. The training and creation of these systems are discussed, and their limitations are explored in depth. Best practices for integrating machine learning into products is discussed and examples of the technology’s successes and failures considered. 

Special thanks to our long term channel patron Edmund  Mei.

Channel Patreon Link:
https://www.patreon.com/tanyalairdcivil
731 Woodworks’ video on the Altendorf Hand Guard System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hfWs9LTzNE

Altendorf Group Hand Guard System Website:
https://www.altendorf-handguard.com/en/
https://youtu.be/jF_Dt3AgFgE
Demonstrations of Sawstop mechanism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYLAi4jwXcs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQu3ccfl7Ow
Dr. Angela Collier’s Video on AI, Chat Engines, and Biases:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUrOxh_0leE

Dr. Robert Miles very approachable videos on AI alignment:
https://www.youtube.com/@RobertMilesAI/videos
More Thorough Article on the Topic:
https://perma.cc/A4GS-DVAK
Machine Vision and Learning Incidents:
Google Images Gorilla Incident: 
https://www.wired.com/story/when-it-comes-to-gorillas-google-photos-remains-blind/
Facial Recognition Racial Bias:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/black-mom-sues-city-of-detroit-claiming-she-was-falsely-arrested-while-8-months-pregnant-by-officers-using-facial-recognition-technology/ar-AA1eVGN4
Machine Vision and Dermatology:
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/08/machine-learning-dermatology-skin-color/567619/
Sex Bias in Amazon Hiring Software:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automation-insight/amazon-scraps-secret-ai-recruiting-tool-that-showed-bias-against-women-idUSKCN1MK08G

Proctoring Software Eye-Tracking Flags Crying as Cheating and Other Bias Issues:
https://nextshark.com/tiktok-anti-cheat-software-criticism
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/8/22374386/proctorio-racial-bias-issues-opencv-facial-detection-schools-tests-remote-learning
https://cdt.org/insights/how-automated-test-proctoring-software-discriminates-against-disabled-students/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9ag4/schools-are-abandoning-invasive-proctoring-software-after-student-backlash


Note, some short clips and images from the Altendorf site and the 731 Woodworks Video may have been included in this video.  

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Youtube Users:
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Further Credits:
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Sawstop 
Wikimedia


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