Bias is programmed into AI systems
November 12, 2019
Artificial intelligence systems, such as Google’s BERT, pick up biases through their learning that lead to mistakes. Gender bias has been evident in recent tests that show AI systems associate words such as “jewelry, baby, horses, house, money” and “action” with men and not women.
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