He Said, She Said: Addressing Gender in Neural Machine Translation Slator

Artificial intelligence technology has run into a potentially delicate issue: gender bias. In November 2018, mainstream news media reported that Google's automatic suggestion tool for Google Mail will not suggest gender-based pronouns to avoid autocompleting a sentence with the wrong gender. The feature (called Smart Compose) will avoid suggesting genders because, as Gmail Product Manager Paul Lambert put it, "not all'screw-ups' are equal…[gender is] a big, big thing." Google Translate, which now largely runs on neural machine translation (NMT), had also recently addressed the question of gender bias. On December 6, 2018, Google published a first blog post about its efforts to reduce gender bias in Google Translate.