Archives for gender bias

03 Nov

This AI Tool Corrects Gender Bias In Portrayal Of Females In Movies

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A 2019 study coined a very interesting term — ‘the Cinderella complex’. The authors of this study analysed 7226 books, 6000 movie synopsis, and 1,100 movie scripts and found that the words used to associate with the male and female characters reeked of gender bias. The lives of the male characters were adventure and aspiration-oriented,…

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10 Oct

Disney Will Now Use AI To Address Gender Bias In Its Films

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Popular studio Disney isn't without its share of controversies. From allegations of antisemitism to undertones of racism and gender inequality, Disney films have not aged well. However, newer productions like Frozen or Brave with strong women leads and vivid characters are turning things around. Disney is now taking further steps to improve diversity in their…

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11 Jan

AI Solves Gender Bias, Puts Overlooked Women Scientists In Spotlight

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Wikipedia has been one of the few companies which integrated AI into its daily operations very early on. To resolve its editing issues and enable users to edit and change almost any article, Wikipedia introduced an AI tool called Objective Revision Evaluation Services (ORES) to detect bad or malicious edits and alert Wikipedia’s human editors…

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28 Nov

Strong AI? Industry Majors Are Reeling From Gender Bias In AI Tools

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“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” said George Orwell in his novel titled Animal Farm. But in the world of artificial intelligence, Google’s Gmail product manager Paul Lambert has found out that, “Not all ‘screw ups’ are equal,”. This was his response when the search engine giant found out…

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20 Sep

IBM Launches ‘AI Fairness 360’ To Detect Bias In Artificial Intelligence

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IBM is launching a new tool which will check biases in algorithms and try to understand how and why they crept in, and how to mitigate them. Called AI Fairness 360 (AIF360), this product by IBM is a comprehensive open-source toolkit of metrics to check for unwanted bias in datasets, machine learning models, and state-of-the-art algorithms. […]

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