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Ring camera's A.I. is fooled by these very normal types of wildlife. What seems to be the problem?

“The Ring, however, identifies the European Badger as a skunk – suggesting that perhaps the A.I. training favors the U.S. interpretation.”

— Digital Camera World

What happened

Ring's doorbell camera AI labels a European badger in a British garden as a skunk, an animal that does not live in Britain. The magazine's managing editor suspects the system was trained mostly on American backyard animals and has asked Ring for comment.

Read it at Digital Camera World ↗