Chess YouTuber Antonio Radic s channel was blocked for harmful content
Radic thinks his discussion of black versus white in chess strategy set off the AI
Researchers tested AI software 680,000 comments on YouTube chess channels
Over 80 percent of comments marked as hate speech were incorrectly flagged
Terms like black, white, attack and threat seemed to have set off the filters
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PITTSBURGH The Queen s Gambit, the recent TV mini-series about a chess master, may have stirred increased interest in chess, but a word to the wise: social media talk about game-piece colors could lead to misunderstandings, at least for hate-speech detection software.
That s what a pair of Carnegie Mellon University researchers suspect happened to Antonio Radi?, or agadmator, a Croatian chess player who hosts a popular YouTube channel. Last June, his account was blocked for harmful and dangerous content.
YouTube never provided an explanation and reinstated the channel within 24 hours, said Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh a project scientist in CMU s Language Technologies Institute (LTI). It s nevertheless possible that black vs. white talk during Radi? s interview with Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura triggered software that automatically detects racist language, he suggested.
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PITTSBURGH A smile that lifts the cheeks and crinkles the eyes is thought by many to be truly genuine. But new research at Carnegie Mellon University casts doubt on whether this joyful facial expression necessarily tells others how a person really feels inside.
In fact, these smiling eye smiles, called Duchenne smiles, seem to be related to smile intensity, rather than acting as an indicator of whether a person is happy or not, said Jeffrey Girard, a former post-doctoral researcher at CMU s Language Technologies Institute. I do think it s possible that we might be able detect how strongly somebody feels positive emotions based on their smile, said Girard, who joined the psychology faculty at the University of Kansas this past fall. But it s going to be a bit more complicated than just asking, Did their eyes move?