Welp. Turns out AI learns gender and race stereotypes from humans.

When humans teach computers how to behave, the machines have no choice but to learn from us.  

That much is clear in a new study published Thursday in the journal Science that found artificial intelligence replicates the same gender and racial stereotypes we already struggle to control. 

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That finding, while not entirely surprising, suggests that AI might accidentally perpetuate bias instead of simply streamlining data analysis and work tasks. 

To reveal this troubling dynamic, the researchers used off-the-shelf AI and developed an algorithm to determine how it associated pairs of words. The AI generated by machine learning was based on a recent large-scale crawl of the web that captured the complexity of the English language.  Read more...

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