Big Tech Tries to Fight Racist and Sexist Data

The fact that AI can pass on bias and prejudice is now widely recognized, probably because recent incidents of apparently racist or sexist algorithms involved big companies like Google and Amazon. A better understanding of how bad data gets encoded might make it easier to prevent. The large-scale machine learning AI that undergirds most recent advances relies on immense quantities of data. As the system feeds on the data provided, thousands of small adjustments are made to internal parameters to tweak how the data will be categorized. So, if the original training data is biased, the training is biased and the results will be biased.