There’s this fairly common belief / misconception how AI is neutral, or more logical and less biased than a human, because it runs on a computer, which is a calculator / a machine… But pretty much the opposite of it is true. It’ll try to learn all biases, stereotypes, prejudices and shortcomings from the training data. And it’s really hard to mitigate for that, make it learn the correct pattern. Curate datasets which aren’t skewed in any way, reflect all cases and population groups…
We had all those articles. Go ask an AI to draw a picture of a doctor. And it’ll come up a white male. That’s how it works.
There’s this fairly common belief / misconception how AI is neutral, or more logical and less biased than a human, because it runs on a computer, which is a calculator / a machine… But pretty much the opposite of it is true. It’ll try to learn all biases, stereotypes, prejudices and shortcomings from the training data. And it’s really hard to mitigate for that, make it learn the correct pattern. Curate datasets which aren’t skewed in any way, reflect all cases and population groups…
We had all those articles. Go ask an AI to draw a picture of a doctor. And it’ll come up a white male. That’s how it works.