How Do Machine Learning Algorithms Learn Bias? – Towards Data Science – Medium

Guest written by Rebecca Njeri! There are funny mishaps that result from imperfectly trained machine learning algorithms. Or these two guys stuck on a voice activated elevator that doesn't understand their accent. Or maybe Amazon's Alexa trying to order hundreds of dollhousesbecause it confuses the news anchor's report for a request from its owner. There are also the memes on the Amazon Whole Foods purchase, which are truly in the spirit of defective algorithms.