Machines Learn a Biased View of Women
Machines Learn a Biased View of Women
Last fall, University of Virginia computer-science professor Vicente Ordóñez noticed a pattern in some of the guesses made by image-recognition software he was building. “It would see a picture of a kitchen and more often than not associate it with women, not men,” he says. That got Ordóñez wondering whether he and other researchers were unconsciously injecting biases into their software. So he…