ALJAZ Inside Story 2019 Ep 158 July 14, 2024
Engineers who were mostly white males trained algorithms with the data set of images that were themselves overwhelmingly of white males. The resulting algorithm struggled to recognize non white non male faces. The algorithm simply couldnt compute what they saw with what theyd been trained on. The same racial and gender bias that existed in the wider world was trained into the system itself. One of the other key parts of the debate has to do with the extent to which the Technology Works on different faces so whether its as effective on people of color or women is that changing does a kind of de...