When AI sees a man, it thinks "official." A woman? "Smile"

Turns out, computers do too. When US and European researchers fed pictures of members of Congress to Google's cloud image recognition service, the service applied three times as many annotations related to physical appearance to photos of women as it did to men. The top labels applied to men were "official" and "businessperson"; for women they were "smile" and "chin." The researchers administered their machine vision test to Google's artificial intelligence image service and those of rivals Amazon and Microsoft. Crowdworkers were paid to review the annotations those services applied to official photos of lawmakers and images those lawmakers tweeted.