Gradient Update #9: Bias Bounties and Hierarchical Architectures for Computer Vision

Welcome to the ninth update from the Gradient! If you were referred by a friend, subscribe and follow us on Twitter! This news edition's story is Sharing learnings from the first algorithmic bias bounty challenge. Summary Twitter's algorithmic bias bounty challenge, the first of its kind, recently concluded. While users had previously found the algorithm had a racial bias, the bounty uncovered a number of other biases and potential harms.