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I really don't see the problem. White men are the largest demographic of the US, so nueral networks will have a bias towards them. It really isn't that complic
by thearchitect1 6y ago
I really don't see the problem.
White men are the largest demographic of the US, so nueral networks will have a bias towards them. It really isn't that complicated.
- watwut 6y ago> White men are the largest demographic of the US That is super unlikely, considering that women are born slightly more often then males and women live longer.
- kmm 6y agoThe sex ratio at birth is actually slightly biased towards men, it takes a few decades to even out. Globally, there are also more men than women, but that's partly due to China and India being artificial outliers, in most countries, women outnumber men.
- djaque 6y agoThe article highlights dataset biases that reinforce existing biases in society. It becomes a problem when ML affects the real world. See e.g. predictive policing [1]. [1] https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/889xyb/over-1000-ai-experts-condemn-racist-algorithms-that-claim-to-predict-crime https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/889xyb/over-1000-ai-exper...
- jasongill 6y agoWhite women are the largest demographic in the US, but the US is only a small fraction of the world population. There are more Asian women in the world than there are men & women in the US and Europe combined, but this software fails miserably on Asian women as shown in the article.
- thearchitect1 6y agoYeah because nobody is using Asian datasets. Asians are less than 5% of the population in the US.