Who Is Responsible for Ethical AI?
PHOTO: Chris Yang | unsplash Five years ago, Microsoft released its infamous bot, Tay, into the world of Twitter. Tay used a machine learning algorithm to learn from interactions on the platform, to then echo novel responses back based on that learning. Within short time it became obvious that Twitter is not ideal ground for unsupervised learning. It turns out that the people who scream the loudest arenât always the best teachers. Without a filtering mechanism, Tay started parroting back all kinds of racist, bigoted and misogynistic tweets. So naturally a question arose: how can we exp...