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22 Mar

The Persistent Problem Of Cultural Discrimination In AI Datasets

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University recently conducted an NLP study on social biases present in Bollywood and Hollywood using their AI tool. Subtitles from 700 films were gathered for each industry and analysed, representing seven decades of cultural evolution. The AI tool was trained to complete sentences after learning from the subtitles and progressed to…

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22 Mar

The Persistent Problem Of Cultural Discrimination In AI Datasets

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University recently conducted an NLP study on social biases present in Bollywood and Hollywood using their AI tool. Subtitles from 700 films were gathered for each industry and analysed, representing seven decades of cultural evolution. The AI tool was trained to complete sentences after learning from the subtitles and progressed to…

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22 Feb

A Surprise Appointment & An Expulsion: Drama Continues To Unfold At Google AI

An(other) AI ethics researcher has been fired a day after Google announced a major rejig of its responsible AI team with Marian Croak as the new chief. Margaret Mitchell broke the news on Twitter saying, ‘I’m fired’. Google’s official statement said Mitchell was fired over the unauthorised sharing of confidential information to outsiders. Like Timnit…

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