AI can be sexist and racist — it’s time to make it fair

AI can be sexist and racist — it’s time to make it fair
►http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05707-8

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Algorithms trained on biased data sets often recognize only the left-hand image as a bride. Credit: Left: iStock/Getty; Right: Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty

#biais #IA #sexisme #racisme

The rise of ’pseudo-AI’ : how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots’ work
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/06/artificial-intelligence-ai-humans-bots-tech-companies

Using what one expert calls a ‘Wizard of Oz technique’, some companies keep their reliance on humans a secret from investors It’s hard to build a service powered by artificial intelligence. So hard, in fact, that some startups have worked out it’s cheaper and easier to get humans to behave like robots than it is to get machines to behave like humans. “Using a human to do the job lets you skip over a load of technical and business development challenges. It doesn’t scale, obviously, but it (...)

#Google #Amazon #AmazonMechanicalTurk #Facebook #algorithme #bot #manipulation #terms (...)

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