Artificial intelligence is not free from bias Weekend Argus

Experts in ethics, privacy and bias in AI spoke at the AI Expo Africa conference held in Cape Town this week. Highlights included an AI art and music challenge, and French company Rhoban who showed off their soccer-playing robots. The robots are also the RoboWorld Cup champions. Mushambi Mutuma, chief executive at tech company Altivex said AI was controlled by the people who input the data. "Last year Google's facial recognition software kept inputting African-Americans as gorillas. We have to have new voices and a bit more diversity because the data will never come back accurate and that's what we've tried to solve from bias," he said.