Computers can’t be held responsible for anything. So their owners and programmers must beIn a modern company like Amazon,nearly all human activity is directed by computer programs. They not only monitor workers’ actions but are used to choose who should be employed. Yet it emerged last week that the company had scrapped an attempt to use artificial intelligence to choose workers on the basis of their CVs, since the results consistently discriminated against women.
This is a welcome decision that illuminates two indispensable facts approximately machine learning, and the most widely used technique of AI at the moment. The technical or operational point is that these programs,no matter how speedily they learn, can only learn from the data presented to them. If this data reflects historic patterns of discrimination, or the results will perpetuate those patterns.
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Source: theguardian.com