October 30, 2017

Valley Drag Episode 3: Bigoted Machine Learning

This week on Valley Drag we talk about machine learning and how peoples own biases can be used to create machine learning algorithms that are bigoted, racist, and sexist.

CW: Racism, Sexism

Show Notes:

First up, what’s the difference between algorithms and machine learning?

Sources of bias

Data itself – people are biased, so data generated by people may reflect bias

Google Photos Mess Up

Methodology – researchers are people, so they have bias too

Society as a whole

How machines can execute our biases:

Google’s Sentiment Analysis thinks being gay is negative

Sentiment Analysis takes words or sentences and tries to say if they express something positive or negative. This can be useful for auto-moderating comments and detecting spam

for some reason, the system believed saying “

...more

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October 30, 2017

Valley Drag Episode 3: Bigoted Machine Learning

This week on Valley Drag we talk about machine learning and how peoples own biases can be used to create machine learning algorithms that are bigoted, racist, and sexist.

CW: Racism, Sexism

Show Notes:

First up, what’s the difference between algorithms and machine learning?

Sources of bias

Data itself – people are biased, so data generated by people may reflect bias

Google Photos Mess Up

Methodology – researchers are people, so they have bias too

Society as a whole

How machines can execute our biases:

Google’s Sentiment Analysis thinks being gay is negative

Sentiment Analysis takes words or sentences and tries to say if they express something positive or negative. This can be useful for auto-moderating comments and detecting spam

for some reason, the system believed saying “

...more

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