Bias in Artificial Intelligence – easy to spot, harder to avoid
Rubbish In, Rubbish Out – Is accuracy in Artificial Intelligence as simple as we think? What do we want from Artificial Intelligence? Do we want the type of hyper intelligent, almost omniscient electronic being we have become used to (and frightened of) in popular culture? Or do we expect something that is emotionless, hyper neutral in the mould of HAL 9000 in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ (although the two are not mutually exclusive)? If super neutrality is what we want or expect, the next question is ‘how do we achieve this?’, especially given that humans are inherently biased, mistaken or misinformed. Bias in images…an experiment An article in The Lancet, ‘Reflections before the storm: the AI reproduction of biased imagery in global health visuals,’ gives an idea of how difficult this…