Overcoming the Racial Bias in AI

Back in 2013, Microsoft came up with the exciting idea of introducing the general public to Artificial Intelligence.

Tay, the teenage chatbot, was launched into the Twittersphere to interact with the platform’s audience. Being a young and hip chatbot, it was programmed to use modern slang language instead of formal English. Tay was to mimic those that interacted with her so she could learn the human ways.

But this experiment didn’t turn out the way Microsoft expected it would. Trolls on the social media site took advantage of Tay’s “repeat after me” function and turned her into one of the most bigoted profiles on the forum.

16 hours after it was launched, Microsoft shelved the entire project. Tay was a massive PR disaster for Microsoft and a terrible ambassador of Artificial Intelligence.

But if one is to the silver lining in this absolute catastrophe —the chatbot exposed the dangers of human-induced AI bias.

How AI Inherited Human Bias

Information technology has reduced the cost of doing business, improved healthcare, and made communication more efficient. Artificial Intelligence promises to do that on a whole new level by automating repetitive tasks and freeing up humans to pursue more creative ventures.

“Unlike previous technologies, AI can make vital decisions,” explains Alex Reynolds of Namobot, a website that uses Big Data to create catchy business names. “It’s extremely important for algorithms to be completely free of bias and partiality.”

While the sci-fi franchises, such as The Terminator and Westworld, depict murderous robots as ‘AI gone wrong’ —the threat is much more real than cyborg assassins in leather jackets.

There’s enough evidence to suggest that algorithms are discriminating against women and ethnic minorities. In fact, they’re playing a vile role in promoting racial discrimination.

In January, Robert Julian-Borchak was handcuffed and taken into custody on his front lawn on charges of felony and larceny. The Wayne County police accused him of stealing five timepieces worth $3800 based on evidence provided by a facial recognition algorithm.

But there was a slight problem. Robert did not commit the crime.

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Making Sales More Efficient: Lead Qualification Using AI

If you were to ask any organization today, you would learn that they are all becoming reliant on Artificial Intelligence Solutions and using AI to digitally transform in order to bring their organizations into the new age. AI is no longer a new concept, instead, with the technological advancements that are being made in the realm of AI, it has become a much-needed business facet.

AI has become easier to use and implement than ever before, and every business is applying AI solutions to their processes. Organizations have begun to base their digital transformation strategies around AI and the way in which they conduct their business. One of these business processes that AI has helped transform is lead qualifications.

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Every week we bring to you the best AI research papers, articles and videos that we have found interesting, cool or simply weird that week.

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Overcoming the Racial Bias in AI

Back in 2013, Microsoft came up with the exciting idea of introducing the general public to Artificial Intelligence.

Tay, the teenage chatbot, was launched into the Twittersphere to interact with the platform’s audience. Being a young and hip chatbot, it was programmed to use modern slang language instead of formal English. Tay was to mimic those that interacted with her so she could learn the human ways.

But this experiment didn’t turn out the way Microsoft expected it would. Trolls on the social media site took advantage of Tay’s “repeat after me” function and turned her into one of the most bigoted profiles on the forum.

16 hours after it was launched, Microsoft shelved the entire project. Tay was a massive PR disaster for Microsoft and a terrible ambassador of Artificial Intelligence.

But if one is to the silver lining in this absolute catastrophe —the chatbot exposed the dangers of human-induced AI bias.

How AI Inherited Human Bias

Information technology has reduced the cost of doing business, improved healthcare, and made communication more efficient. Artificial Intelligence promises to do that on a whole new level by automating repetitive tasks and freeing up humans to pursue more creative ventures.

“Unlike previous technologies, AI can make vital decisions,” explains Alex Reynolds of Namobot, a website that uses Big Data to create catchy business names. “It’s extremely important for algorithms to be completely free of bias and partiality.”

While the sci-fi franchises, such as The Terminator and Westworld, depict murderous robots as ‘AI gone wrong’ —the threat is much more real than cyborg assassins in leather jackets.

There’s enough evidence to suggest that algorithms are discriminating against women and ethnic minorities. In fact, they’re playing a vile role in promoting racial discrimination.

In January, Robert Julian-Borchak was handcuffed and taken into custody on his front lawn on charges of felony and larceny. The Wayne County police accused him of stealing five timepieces worth $3800 based on evidence provided by a facial recognition algorithm.

But there was a slight problem. Robert did not commit the crime.

#ai #bias #crime #ethics

This Week in AI - Issue #22 | Rubik's Code

Every week we bring to you the best AI research papers, articles and videos that we have found interesting, cool or simply weird that week.Have fun!

Research Papers

• Unsupervised Learning of Probably Symmetric Deformable 3D Objects from Images in the Wild
• Slowing Down the Weight Norm Increase in Momentum-based Optimizers
• The Collective Knowledge project: making ML models more portable and reproducible with open APIs, reusable best practices and MLOps
• AutoGAN-Distiller: Searching to Compress Generative Adversarial Networks
• Coherent Reconstruction of Multiple Humans from a Single Image
• Variational Bayesian Monte Carlo with Noisy Likelihoods
• GNN3DMOT: Graph Neural Network for 3D Multi-Object Tracking with Multi-Feature Learning
• Are we done with ImageNet?
• How to Avoid Being Eaten by a Grue: Structured Exploration Strategies for Textual Worlds
• Background Modeling via Uncertainty Estimation for Weakly-supervised Action Localization
• The Collective Knowledge project: making ML models more portable and reproducible with open APIs, reusable best practices and MLOps
• Image Deconvolution via Noise-Tolerant Self-Supervised Inversion
• Learning a Unified Sample Weighting Network for Object Detection

Articles

• Deepfake Detection Challenge Results: An open initiative to advance AI
• Slightly Unnerving AI Produces Human Faces Out of Totally Pixelated Photos
• NeoML Released as TensorFlow Alternative
• Google Meet takes on Zoom with AI-powered noise cancellation
• Open Compound Domain Adaptation
• Dense pose for animal classes with transfer learning
• 10 Ways Enterprises Are Getting Results From AI Strategies
• An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in
• Why we switched from Flask to FastAPI for production machine learning
• Simple Transformers
• The key differences between rule-based AI and machine learning
• Deep learning-based surrogate models outperform simulators and could hasten scientific discoveries
• HANDS-ON GUIDE TO OBJECT DETECTION USING YOLO
• Artificial neural networks that mimic the flexibility and computing power of the brain
• MIT researchers train AI to predict how humans paint works of art
• What Do Machine Learning Engineers Do Anyway?
• AI Is Amazing But Complicated, And We Don’t Necessarily Need To Plunge In Headfirst
• Deep learning networks track up to 100 animals simultaneously
• Is artificial intelligence changing art?

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Amsterdam And Helsinki Launch Open AI Registers

Amsterdam and Helsinki both launched an Open AI Register at the Next Generation Internet Summit. According to sources, these two cities are the first in the world that are aiming to be open and transparent about the use of algorithms and AI in the cities.

Currently, in the beta version, Algorithm Register is an overview of the artificial intelligence systems and algorithms used by the City of Amsterdam. The register is an effort to show where the cities are currently making use of AI and how the algorithms work.

Jan Vapaavuori, Mayor of Helsinki stated, “Helsinki aims to be the city in the world that best capitalises on digitalisation. Digitalisation is strongly associated with the utilisation of artificial intelligence. With the help of artificial intelligence, we can give people in the city better services available anywhere and at any time. In the front rank with the City of Amsterdam, we are proud to tell everyone openly what we use Artificial Intelligence for.”

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