'Artificial intelligence could deepen biases and make us more mechanical' - Times of India

Nisheeth K Vishnoi teaches computer science at Yale University. Sharing his perspective with Times Evoke, he discusses biases that could tilt AI, how algorithms are changing humans -- and whether technology can eventually make music like Ravi Shankar My work in AI explores models and algorithms that can mitigate biases -- recently, a lot of AI-based technology has been shown to be even more biased than human judgement. This poses a serious challenge if decisions on the distribution of social resources or citizens' rights are made by such algorithms. If these include human biases in them, in situations where they're often used, like a judge relying on AI to decide whom to give bail to or not, the algorithms could treat different sections of society very differently. Great art comes from absorbed human attention -- but this ability is now being changed by AI. (Picture courtesy: Getty Images) Our real intelligence One way AI algorithms work is'learning' -- this involves accessing data and training models on that data.