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2017-04-20 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

AI programs exhibit racial and gender biases, research reveals

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Posted by Fred 2017-04-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 And for those of you really interested (professionally or personally) in 'word-embedding', sentiment analysis, SVM and sparse word matrices...don't miss NLP Day Texas 2017

Posted by Skidmark 2017-04-20 00:57|| 2017-04-20 00:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Sad to say you could not mae a movie like airplane today. Write a line like "I speak jive" and the PC brigade would string you to the lamp post.

As to machine speech. Does this just mean English or all languages?

Posted by Cheaderhead 2017-04-20 06:15|| 2017-04-20 06:15|| Front Page Top

#3 "Sir, my first job was programming binary loadlifters—very similar to your vaporators in most respects."

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-04-20 09:14|| 2017-04-20 09:14|| Front Page Top

#4 The words “female” and “woman” were more closely associated with arts and humanities occupations and with the home, while “male” and “man” were closer to maths and engineering professions.

One could make a similar observation wandering around a college campus. How odd that our language mirrors the world we see.

Sandra Wachter, a researcher in data ethics and algorithms at the University of Oxford, said: “The world is biased,
the historical data is biased, hence it is not surprising that we receive biased results.”

tl;dr: We don't like the world and demand it conform to our prejudices about what is right and proper. (sound of tiny feet stamping)

Posted by SteveS 2017-04-20 09:27|| 2017-04-20 09:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Sad to say you could not mae a movie like airplane today. Write a line like "I speak jive" and the PC brigade would string you to the lamp post.

Not only that but the folks on the internet would slice and dice you for calling it jive and not ebonics, for Ms Cleaver's cultural appropriation of their language and for the plot hole of the black fellow eating the tainted fish instead of the chicken.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-04-20 16:38|| 2017-04-20 16:38|| Front Page Top

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