The Biases of AI

Here's an interesting project.

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ImageNet Roulette, a digital art project and viral selfie app, exposes how biases have crept into the artificial-intelligence technologies changing our lives.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/a...cognition.html

The page is here: https://imagenet-roulette.paglen.com/

I tried a few photos I had of myself and it appears the White Male Privilege certainly works.

My results were:

• Counsel to the Crown: a barrister selected to serve as counsel to the British ruler
• biographer: someone who writes an account of a person's life, and
• newsreader, news reader: someone who reads out broadcast news bulletin

The last was actually a picture of me and Randi(qv) and identifies him as:

• queen mother: a queen dowager who is mother of the reigning sovereign

Houston we have a problem. ;)

Amusingly enough (and we all know how easily I am amused), trying a number of pictures of family members turned up some quite accurate results such as granddaughter and scientist (the Barnum effect at work?). Though a picture of my middle-aged son and my wife identified them both as nuns.

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Note that: ImageNet Roulette has made its point - it has inspired a long-overdue public conversation about the politics of training data, and we hope it acts as a call to action for the AI community to contend with the potential harms of classifying people. And so as of Friday, September 27th, 2019 we’re taking it off the internet.

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