Silicon Valley doesn't care about poor people: Top AI models kinda suck at ID'ing household stuff in hard-up nations
If it's not a 50in TV or a huge fridge of soylent, we don't want to know
Off-the-shelf object-recognition systems struggle, relatively speaking, to identify common items in hard-up homes in countries across Africa, Asia, and South America. The same software performs better at identifying stuff in richer households in Europe and North America.…