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26 Jun

Machines Are Indifferent, We Are Not: Yann LeCun’s Tweet Sparks ML Bias Debate

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“The bill for miscommunication always comes due” James Clear Turing awardee Yann LeCun unintentionally sparked up a debate on the role of bias in machine learning with a single tweet. A paper called PULSE made the rounds last week, thanks to the CVPR conference. It was used to demonstrate how a machine learning model could…

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03 Jun

Why Mitigating AI Biases Is The Need Of The Hour?

With artificial intelligence having an immense hold on human lives, supporting them to work, communicate, shop, as well as do their finances, people have started relying on this advanced technology to operate their lives. However, with increasing penetration of AI in critical areas like healthcare, legal, hiring, among others, brings in the concern for biases…

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07 Feb

Google’s New ML Fairness Gym Has A Clear Mission — Track Down Bias & Promote Fairness In AI

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Human societies are extremely complex. The cultural, racial and geographical differences around the globe and the lack of curated data make ‘fairness’ in technology a huge challenge. Now, in an attempt to track the long term societal impacts of artificial intelligence, Google researchers recently released a machine learning fairness gym. They have done this by…

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03 Oct

5 Decades Of Machine Learning Unfairness: The Eerie Way In Which Prejudice Crept Into Algorithms

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The notion of machine learning fairness can be bottled down to the following facets of data pre-processing: Demographic parity Equal opportunity Equalised odds Disparate impact To remove prejudices from a model might not be an impossible task but can any application which serves humans be immune to the human itself. And, even if the human…

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