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EACH OF THE TWO parliamentary committees which were involved in last week’s dramatic developments surrounding the nomination of Kevin Cardiff to the European Court of Auditors will meet today.
Both the Oireachtas committee on EU Affairs, and the European Parliament’s committee on Budgetary Control, will meet for the first time since their high-profile meetings last week.
Neither committee, however, is set to discuss the events of last week – with the European committee instead devoting its day to discussing Court of Auditors reports on fraud, while the Oireachtas committee will be briefed on next week’s summit of EU leaders.
The last meeting of the European committee, last Wednesday, voted narrowly to reject Cardiff’s candidacy for the Court of Auditors – while the Oireachtas committee discovered the following day that Ireland’s current member, Eoin O’Shea, had emailed two influential MEPs to raise concerns about Cardiff’s appointment.
It is likely, however, that MEPs on the European committee will be formally informed of O’Shea’s activities today when the committee chairman Jan Mulder briefs members on miscellaneous business at the end of today’s meeting in Brussels.
This will take place in an in camera session, however – meaning the general public will not be privy to any comments made by MEPs about O’Shea’s activities.
The Oireachtas committee last week began arrangements to meet with the MEPs on the committee, and may use today’s meeting to nominate a delegation to travel to Brussels for discussions on O’Shea’s emails.
A full vote of the European Parliament’s plenary session on Cardiff’s appointment is scheduled for December 13, two weeks from today. Cardiff has pledged to withdraw his name from the nomination if MEPs vote to uphold the negative opinion against him.
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I’m waiting for Irish people to be tagged as ghosts
Funniest headline I’ve read in ages!
Google need to stop monkeying around.
The algorrillm needs some fine tuning.
Is it caus they black?
It’s a bit like when Nikon brought out their blink detection software years ago. It asks “did someone blink?” I noticed it myself on my L100 and it worked fine. The problem arose when pictures of Asians were mistaken as someone blinking, even though they were not.
Since Nikon is an Asian company, one wonders what sort of quality control they had on that one.
What kind of ape wrote that program.
That’s fierce funny altogether.
Light relief from the Greece crisis.
Can’t foresee a Terminator situation any time soon
I’ll be black.
For anyone thinking this is a person in google tagging black people as gorillas: http://rocknrollnerd.github.io/ml/2015/05/27/leopard-sofa.html
Check your algorithmic privilege.
Mortifying.
ilikegrasss
Seems like they have a racist/s in Google
I don’t think computers can be racist. They’re aren’t that advanced in AI yet.
Nor are they so advanced in recruitment…
This is an AI issue, not a human issue.
Perhaps if it wasn’t a human issue it wouldn’t have been an AI issue.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2014/05/29/2-of-google-employees-are-black-and-just-30-are-women/
So it’s not the fault of the person who programed the AI(long way off real AI) who is at fault?
Black people don’t look anything like Gorillas . If it can tell the difference between a Leopard and a Jaguar then it should be able to tel the difference between a person and an Ape.
Don’t see how labeling a black person as a Gorilla is racist..sure aren’t we all as equally related to the gorilla?
After that handsome gorilla the other day I;d say many of us would take kindly to being more gorilla-like :)
Well said Fozz. Sure Gareth Bale is the absolute spit of a gorilla. He gets fierce abuse for it. And I have yet to hear anyone call it a racist insult.
@Paul Roche
Maybe white and Asian males are just better at this kind of work.
Do you think a negroe programmer would have missed this?
You’re supposed to say “black”.
Perhaps, but I intended to write “negro”, the “e” hung around after an unsuccessful edit of an original plural… Maybe it should look for job on Google…
Looks nifty, can I download from the ApeStore?
There is a simple solution to that issue. It would involve swapping two words. Although I think gorillas would not like to be named humans. Just imagine what animal rights activists would say.
Think how clever you have to be to screw up on this level.
How do you test every possible scenario for photograph classification? I’ve been fooled by more than one elbow, myself.
Facial recognition insists in asian
Well then, I think it’s time for me to get a software update too. I honestly had to do a double take.
All aboard the lets get offended at anything band wagon.
‘Get machetes to think more like the way people do’ (quote) . Keep digging !
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