Thread by @svpino, Artificial Intelligence can be a bitch.Here are 6 high-profile projects that have [...]

Artificial Intelligence can be a bitch.

Here are 6 high-profile projects that have miserably failed and have made the respective companies look really foolish:

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The algorithm powering the service was unable to properly classify some people of color

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Here is the story: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/12/16882408/google-racist-gorillas-photo-recognition-algorithm-ai

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Here is the story: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automation-insight/amazon-scraps-secret-ai-recruiting-tool-that-showed-bias-against-women-idUSKCN1MK08G

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It was a scandal.

Here is the story: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compas-recidivism-algorithm

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Microsoft had to take the chatbot down from Twitter and never put it back again.

Here is the story: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35902104">https://www.bbc.com/news/tech...

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Just think about that difference!

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Here is the story: https://hivelife.com/microsoft-ai-msn-racial-bias/

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Microsoft AI's Racial Blunder Highlights Systematic Prejudice in Tech

Microsoft's AI news aggregator, MSN.com, has come under fire for racial algorithm bias after it mistakenly paired an article on Little Mix...

https://hivelife.com/microsoft-ai-msn-racial-bias/

There& #39;s something at play in every one of these cases: "algorithm bias."

This is a phenomenon that occurs when an algorithm produces results that are systemically prejudiced due to erroneous assumptions in the machine learning process.

Basically, garbage-in, garbage-out.

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The study of ethics, and the impact of biases when implementing Artificial Intelligence is paramount to achieve the results we want as a society.

Take a look at this TED Talk that @_jessicaalonso_ shared with me. It& #39;s pretty revealing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG_X_7g63rY&feature=youtu.be

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I personally need to do better when thinking about how the solutions I build impact society and how to avoid biases that could undermine their usefulness.

I encourage you to do the same.

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