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AI Programs Exhibit Racial and Gender Biases, Research Reveals (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: An artificial intelligence tool that has revolutionized the ability of computers to interpret everyday language has been shown to exhibit striking gender and racial biases. The findings raise the specter of existing social inequalities and prejudices being reinforced in new and unpredictable ways as an increasing number of decisions affecting our everyday lives are ceded to automatons. In the past few years, the ability of programs such as Google Translate to interpret language has improved dramatically. These gains have been thanks to new machine learning techniques and the availability of vast amounts of online text data, on which the algorithms can be trained. However, as machines are getting closer to acquiring human-like language abilities, they are also absorbing the deeply ingrained biases concealed within the patterns of language use, the latest research reveals. Joanna Bryson, a computer scientist at the University of Bath and a co-author, warned that AI has the potential to reinforce existing biases because, unlike humans, algorithms may be unequipped to consciously counteract learned biases. The research, published in the journal Science, focuses on a machine learning tool known as "word embedding," which is already transforming the way computers interpret speech and text.
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That's it. I'm quitting slashdot.
Slashdot editors have shown that they are willing to take a stand in summaries but when it comes to this constant torrent of identity politics crap, they stay silent. I infer only one thing from this: Slashdot editors (at least passively) support the basic tenants of SJW movement such as world is socially constructed, or that all the differences between group representations in any section of society are and should be only explained by oppression by those holding all the power namely white heterosexual male.
This support goes on explaining the torrent of SJW approved articles as the editors are on a mission to lecture their audience about the "biases". I'm not interested it listening this. You see, this shit permeate the whole society. I get this from everywhere. I can't even watch a fucking soccer match without being reminded that I should "say no to racism". I came to slashdot mainly the get the news in fashion that is "nerdy". "Nerdy" meaning (amongst other things) "showing intellectual interest and rigor". By extension I expect it to mean that this place would be void of this intellectually dishonest lecturing about "biases". Instead it is filled with it and I really don't like reading it. So I'm leaving.
I would like to that the editors and the community for the past 15 years that I've been a reader and a commenter.
What can't Nlggers stop looting in emergencies and politely forage for supplies like honest white people!