ImageNet Roulette categorizes me as a flibbertigibbet!

ImageNet Roulette is an AI image classifier created by the artist PaglenTrevor and Kate Crawford, co-founder of New York University's AI Institute.

Until September 27th 2019 you can upload a photo or take a selfie and try the face recognition app: your data will be analyzed and you’ll be categorized getting as result anything from biographer to bartender to flibbertigibbet (yeah, that’s what I got!)

ImageNet Roulette isn’t only supposed to make you laugh, but also reveal how trained neural nets can profoundly misclassify people.

This could be damaging beyond imagination when one thinks about how companies and governments could deploy these classifiers to decide who gets hired, who deserves a loan, and who belongs in jail.

ImageNet Roulette goal is not to pass judgement on AI, but to engage people with AI: illustrate what AI systems are? How they work? What impact AI has on our life?

Take you pic and get a glimpse of how AI works! 

PS

Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford also created the exhibit Training Humans, which will be at the Osservatorio Fondazione Prada in Milan through February 2020.