DeepMind Shows AI Has Trouble Seeing Homer Simpson's Actions

Those findings from DeepMind, the pioneering London-based AI lab, also suggest the motive behind why DeepMind has created a huge new dataset of YouTube clips to help train AI on identifying human actions in videos that go well beyond "Mmm, doughnuts" or "Doh!" To help improve AI's capability to recognize human actions in motion, DeepMind has unveiled its Kinetics dataset consisting of 300,000 video clips and 400 human action classes. Past cases have shown how imbalanced training datasets can lead to deep learning algorithms performing worse at recognizing the faces of certain ethnic groups. This means that even the Kinetics action classes featuring mostly male participants--such as "playing poker" or "hammer throw"--did not seem to bias AI to the point where the deep learning algorithms had trouble recognizing female participants performing the same actions.