These scientists are so precious:
“One might have hoped that the Google News embedding would exhibit little gender bias because many of its authors are professional journalists,” they say.
Aha. Ahahaha.
Ahem.
This post could also have gone in my SFF Thought Starters collection. There’s a great story in the Futuristica anthology about an AI cop that’s shooting young black men because it’s been trained to assess threats based on a corpus of previous police interactions.
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And how the MIT researchers used a mathematical transform to remove the odious gender bias from the dataset.
Bias example: If you query the vector space embedding asking Man is to Programmer the way Woman is to X, the dataset will respond “Homemaker”.
“As neural networks tease apart the structure of language, they are finding a hidden gender bias that nobody knew was there.”
Seriously? Nobody knew it was there? Nobody at all? Uh… Might want to evaluate your definition of nobody there MIT. I just love the lasagna of irony revealed when an article about bias exhibits it.
“As neural networks tease apart the structure of language, they are finding a hidden gender bias that nobody knew was there.”
Seriously? Nobody knew it was there? Nobody at all? Uh… Might want to evaluate your definition of nobody there MIT. I just love the lasagna of irony revealed when an article about bias exhibits it.
I’m guessing that they thought, “Hey, we’re pulling from Fox and CNN, National Review and Jezebel. That must mean that the competing viewpoints will cancel each other out!”
Which is great thinking until you realize that a lot of these ideas are deeply baked into our culture, so both sides have it to a greater or lesser extent. The computer is only different in that it honestly reports those results.
I’m guessing that they thought, “Hey, we’re pulling from Fox and CNN, National Review and Jezebel. That must mean that the competing viewpoints will cancel each other out!”
Which is great thinking until you realize that a lot of these ideas are deeply baked into our culture, so both sides have it to a greater or lesser extent. The computer is only different in that it honestly reports those results.
I wonder what “black:thug::white:…” solves for. Or “Muslim:terrorist::Christian:…”
I wonder what “black:thug::white:…” solves for. Or “Muslim:terrorist::Christian:…”
Yeah, naive.
Also the term AI is a joke. It’s not Turing’s fault but when he described his test it was mistakenly assumed that he meant: “So if a thing talks like a human, that means it’s intelligent.”
So all their efforts have been: “Make it talk like a human.”
Idiots.
Yeah, naive.
Also the term AI is a joke. It’s not Turing’s fault but when he described his test it was mistakenly assumed that he meant: “So if a thing talks like a human, that means it’s intelligent.”
So all their efforts have been: “Make it talk like a human.”
Idiots.