A Short Discussion on Bias in Machine Learning

In the last decade, advances in data science and engineering have made possible the development of various data products across industry. Problems that not so long ago were treated as very difficult for machines to tackle are now solved (to some extent) and available at large scale capacities. These include many perceptual-like tasks in computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing (NLP). Nowadays, we can contract large-scale deep learning-based vision systems that can recognize and verify faces on images and videos. In the same way, we can take advantage of large-scaled language models to build conversational bots, analyze large bodies of text to find common patterns, or use translation systems that can work on nearly any modern language.