7 Reasons For Bias In AI and What To Do About It - insideBIGDATA

Back in 2015, Google was called out for its photo app that mistakenly labeled pictures of people with darker skin as gorillas. As you can imagine, it was a PR disaster. Of course, the company publicly apologized, said that such a result is unacceptable, and promised to fix the mistake. But apparently – as Wired uncovered three and a half years later – Google somehow never got to fixing the underlying issue. Instead, it implemented a workaround, blocking its AI from identifying gorillas (and other primates) altogether to prevent another miscategorization.