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A.I. ranks restaurants by diner attractiveness, a flawed system.
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A.I. ranks restaurants by diner attractiveness, a flawed system.
425 2nd St APT 201, San Francisco, CA 94107 Get directions
"A 22-year-old, Riley Walz of San Francisco, compiled a numeric system and directed an A.I. model to scrape 2.8 million Google reviews; red means hot, blue means not, with a 10 signaling the restaurants with the most attractive diners. “The model is certainly biased. It’s certainly flawed. But we judge places by the people who go there [...] This website just puts reductive numbers on the superficial calculations we make every day,” reads the website. The project, in the New York Times’ framing, “is more cultural commentary than practical resource,” yet, “its premise speaks to a growing trend of diners prioritizing a restaurant’s clientele over its food or atmosphere.” It also reports that “racial biases in artificial intelligence are baked into the programming.”" - Melissa McCart
