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.
Originally shared by Winchell Chung
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”.
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