Sexist AI

That's an interesting one: Artificial Intelligence (AI) relies on previous data that has been collected, and it extrapolates patterns on that basis, which become criteria for making recommendations or decisions. 

If the original data is biased or partial, inevitably, it affects the 'picture' of reality that AI builds up, and you end up having absurd 'decisions'. 

It shows the limitations of AI, as it is. There's no 'intelligence' to it in the human sense: it is merely regurgitating pieces of data on the basis of more data that's been input over time, scanning masses of data for 'clues' as to what is 'good' or not. 

In this case, the word 'woman' or 'women' got the CVs rejected! 


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45809919

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