Debugging data: Microsoft researchers look at ways to train AI systems to reflect the real world - The AI Blog

Artificial intelligence is already helping people do things like type faster texts and take better pictures, and it's increasingly being used to make even bigger decisions, such as who gets a new job and who goes to jail. That's prompting researchers across Microsoft and throughout the machine learning community to ensure that the data used to develop AI systems reflect the real world, are safeguarded against unintended bias and handled in ways that are transparent and respectful of privacy and security. Data is the food that fuels machine learning. It's the representation of the world that is used to train machine learning models, explained Hanna Wallach, a senior researcher in Microsoft's New York research lab. Wallach is a program co-chair of the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems from Dec. 4 to Dec. 9 in Long Beach, California.