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sumane12 t1_iurfvuy wrote

Bullshit click bait article, designed to trigger outrage from people not familiar with the subject. AI algorithms are not "black boxes" its just impossible to accurately determine the weighted percentages ascribed to each artificial neuron in a deep neural network. It's like asking how many bicycles are being ridden at this exact second in time in the entire world. Not only is it a pointless question, the answer is changing every split second.

The article alludes to the discrepancy in facial recognition software working on black people, arguably it could be that the training data is biased, and that should be rectified, but it also could be as simple as darker colours reflect less light, and so facial patterns are more difficult to measure on darker skin. But that doesn't work as well for click bait.

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fingin t1_iutjybb wrote

Good points! Yes, AI models are prone to racial and gender bias, but the presence of bias is largely due to human behaviours leading up to the model's creation. As above, so below.

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KidKilobyte t1_ivclcbp wrote

Add to this a computer algorithm could be less bias than an average human, but in the same role people will settle for nothing less than perfection from a computer. It also depends on how you define bias. If your analysis is based purely on economic data, then the bias you're decrying is not a bias, but a historic inequity that needs other remedies.

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slightlycolourblind t1_iuubvd5 wrote

there'd a good chance facial recognition software just wasn't trained on large amounts of black faces. if training data was overwhelmingly white (likely, it's issues), then it's gonna have trouble with faces of other races. these kinds of problems are honestly fairly common (medical science/research is overwhelmingly biased towards white men, for example, and has caused many problems for POC), and just dismissing these concerns doesn't seem right to me

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red75prime t1_iuuzbuq wrote

> medical science/research is overwhelmingly biased towards white men

And when it isn't it creates another kind of political problems like the ones with isosorbide dinitrate/hydralazine.

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sumane12 t1_iuvg6o3 wrote

I agree completely, whatever the reason for the biases of the AI, it needs to be thoroughly researched to remove those biases, but the point of the article is to trigger people by saying "we have no idea what these AI are thinking, but they are racist!" And that's completely false.

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