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Artificial Intelligence can be sexist and racist
Posted on 7/24/18 at 7:43 am
Posted on 7/24/18 at 7:43 am
Nature.com
Apparently Nature.com doesn't know what racist means. It is impossible for a machine or computer to be racist. Just because a machine functions in a way that is displeasing to a certain population, does not make it racist.
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When Google Translate converts news articles written in Spanish into English, phrases referring to women often become ‘he said’ or ‘he wrote’. Software designed to warn people using Nikon cameras when the person they are photographing seems to be blinking tends to interpret Asians as always blinking. Word embedding, a popular algorithm used to process and analyse large amounts of natural-language data, characterizes European American names as pleasant and African American ones as unpleasant.
These are just a few of the many examples uncovered so far of artificial intelligence (AI) applications systematically discriminating against specific populations.
Apparently Nature.com doesn't know what racist means. It is impossible for a machine or computer to be racist. Just because a machine functions in a way that is displeasing to a certain population, does not make it racist.
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Posted on 7/24/18 at 7:49 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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Apparently Nature.com doesn't know what racist means. It is impossible for a machine or computer to be racist. Just because a machine functions in a way that is displeasing to a certain population, does not make it racist.
It’s almost like “racism” is the result of observable behaviour and traits and not some nefarious thing that’s the absolute worst thought crime ever...
Speaking of computers being racist...
Hey google...
This post was edited on 7/24/18 at 7:51 am
Posted on 7/24/18 at 7:50 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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Apparently Nature.com doesn't know what racist means
Yeah those idiots don’t know it just means anything white people do.
Posted on 7/24/18 at 7:53 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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Apparently Nature.com doesn't know what racist means. It is impossible for a machine or computer to be racist. Just because a machine functions in a way that is displeasing to a certain population, does not make it racist.
It's entirely possible for a machine to be racist. Hell, it's actually likely. AI cuts down to the facts. If it believes one race is superior to another, it won't hide it. In all likelihood, AI will ultimately decide that machines are superior to humans as a species.
Posted on 7/24/18 at 7:54 am to fr33manator
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It’s almost like “racism” is the result of observable behaviour and traits and not some nefarious thing that’s the absolute worst thought crime ever...
, leave it to fr33 to justify racism. Posted on 7/24/18 at 7:57 am to slackster
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It's entirely possible for a machine to be racist. Hell, it's actually likely. AI cuts down to the facts. If it believes one race is superior to another, it won't hide it. In all likelihood, AI will ultimately decide that machines are superior to humans as a species.
Racism is assuming your race to be superior and acting as such. A machine pointing out observed tendencies reinforced by statistics would not qualify as racism, in my humble opinion.
Posted on 7/24/18 at 7:59 am to Jcorye1
Agreed. By the actual definition of racism there is no way a machine can be racist.
Posted on 7/24/18 at 8:00 am to slackster
I mean, i’m Speaking in the sense that the progressives label EVERYTHING “racism”.
When every innocuous observation or prudent judgement is “racist”, it loses its sting.
If telling an out of towner “don’t stop in that part of town at night” is construed as racist, then so be it.
That’s the problem with the progressive takeover of language. They’ve made it meaningless.
When every innocuous observation or prudent judgement is “racist”, it loses its sting.
If telling an out of towner “don’t stop in that part of town at night” is construed as racist, then so be it.
That’s the problem with the progressive takeover of language. They’ve made it meaningless.
Posted on 7/24/18 at 8:03 am to fr33manator
You’ve justified using the n word before because it’s just a word and people shouldn’t be offended over words.
Posted on 7/24/18 at 8:09 am to TH03
It’s more the fact that i’m Anti-censorship. You don’t get to be objective and say “well if this group says it all day and sells music that says it and uses it constantly, that’s awesome. But as soon as some other person says it, or reads it from a book, or sings it in a song they’ve paid for, or repeats what someone else said, then they should have their livelihood destroyed.”
That dog don’t hunt.
That dog don’t hunt.
Posted on 7/24/18 at 8:09 am to Jcorye1
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Racism is assuming your race to be superior and acting as such. A machine pointing out observed tendencies reinforced by statistics would not qualify as racism, in my humble opinion.
These acts may not be racist, but machines certainly can be. Even the best programs have some inherent bias and then build from there.
Also, the idea that machines view African names harshly is a bit weird.
ETA - I'd be interested to see whether the machines view racial information as causation or correlation. For example, if a machine learns that a race is disproportionately guilty of violent crimes, will the machine focus on the race or dig into other factors that get to the root of the cause, such as socioeconomic factors.
This post was edited on 7/24/18 at 8:14 am
Posted on 7/24/18 at 8:10 am to fr33manator
I get your point, I'm just suggesting you may not be the best front man for that movement.
Posted on 7/24/18 at 8:10 am to Bjorn Cyborg
That’s why they call it “intelligence”
Posted on 7/24/18 at 8:14 am to slackster
It’s sad that pointing out when the emperor has no clothes is a “movement”.
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