Meta suggests an AI computer vision fairness standard, opens a model to all

Meta made a couple significant computer vision announcements this week. It introduced a proposed fairness benchmark, and it made vision model open source.

In both cases, the parent of Facebook wants to insinuate itself deeper into fabric of AI development.

Meta has proposed FACET as the standard for image classification and semantic segmentation "at unprecedented scale." How much, if at all, Facebook benefits from this is an open question. The company famously swore off facial recognition for the social media …

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