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> You set up some algorithm that relies on the bias to make predictions or classifications. Now you can say it's not you that's biased, it's just the algorithm.
by reader_mode 6y ago
> You set up some algorithm that relies on the bias to make predictions or classifications. Now you can say it's not you that's biased, it's just the algorithm.
It's not that you set up the algorithm to rely on the bias - ML trains on data produced by a biased system and ends up building a model containing the same biases - you don't need to "set-up" anything - if you're fine with the existing biases you can "launder" them through ML.
- derbOac 6y agoRight -- I didn't mean to imply that... I just meant that there's some predictive information in the bias the algorithm can take advantage of.