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Keynote, Why and how to care about ethics in ML

Talkat Scale By the Bay 2021 · 2021-10-28..10-29· [machine-learning, tech-ethics]
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Hugging Face claims over 30,000 models on its platform used by more than ten thousand companies and shows concrete bias in BERT’s fill‑in‑the‑blank results (women → nurse, waitress; men → doctor, mechanic). The project launches 5,000 model cards for transparent documentation, runs a sprint with 500 researchers to expand speech models for 100 low-resource languages, and warns of bias laundering as autocomplete output feeds back into training data; a dataset‑exploration tool for detecting biases is coming.

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  1. 0:00Introduction to ML ethics
  2. 1:20Why ethics in ML now
  3. 4:51Bias in mainstream ML models
  4. 6:37ML process and human biases
  5. 10:29Mitigating biases at each step
  6. 11:53Hugging Face’s ethical initiatives
  7. 14:47Value-informed ML for positive impact
  8. 16:34Q&A on AI ethics and community
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