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Let's Talk about AI, ML and Bias

Talkat Clojure/conj 2018 · 2018-11-29..12-01· [machine-learning, tech-ethics]
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Explains that voice recognition fails on Scottish accents and women's voices; a medical app cannot track women's cycles affecting 50% of the population; facial recognition uses a training set that is 77% white male and mislabels Black women; COMPAS risk scores perform no better than a random person $1; Amazon's hiring model downgrades female candidates; a hospital triage model ignores asthma because the training data omitted it. Argues for diverse teams, data audits, alternate models, monitoring and explainability.

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  1. 0:00Let's Talk about AI, ML and Bias
  2. 3:26Professional Athlete
  3. 10:18And what about manipulation?
  4. 11:25The best intentions can be undone by bias.
  5. 19:47Areas of expertise
  6. 21:26"The real safety question, if you want to call it that is that if we give these systems biased data, they will be biased," - John Giannandrea, Google's Al Chief
  7. 23:58Bias through interaction Learned/taught bias
  8. 24:29Emergent bias Bias bubbles
  9. 26:07Inherent data-driven bias Flawed data sets
  10. 30:27Consider data and algorithmic remediation.
  11. 31:53Testing can't stop once a system is unleashed.
  12. 33:49Beware the data land grab.
  13. 34:39Al needs to show its work.
  14. 37:44I'm biased. You're biased. The data is biased.
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