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One theory as to why that might be is that nonbinary brown people may have had more visibility in the press recently, meaning their images end up in the data sets the AI models use for training, says Jernite. OpenAI and Stability.AI, the company that built Stable Diffusion, say that they have introduced fixes to mitigate the biases ingrained in their systems, such as blocking certain prompts that seem likely to generate offensive images. However, these new tools from Hugging Face show how limited these fixes are.  A…

Daniel Radcliffe Once Revealed He’d Be Down To Play Sirius Black or Lupin If The Franchise Gets Reboot ( Photo Credit – Movie Still’s ) The Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe once shared his desired character if he gets a chance to work in the reboot of the movies. While there have been rumours about the franchise’s reboot, fans would be delighted to see the main cast returning in some other character. However, the actor has an idea of how his return could fit better with the Wizarding World. Read on to find out!…

Change in influencers’ rankings from 2016 to 2020. Influencers ranked in the top 10 in at least one news media category in 2016 or 2020 are shown. The 2016 rankings are displayed to the left of the username or alias, with 2020 rankings listed on the right. For each user only one shift is shown. Its color changes from the user’s highest ranked news media category in 2016 to that in 2020. Each panel shows the change over time between two news media…

Meredith Broussard is unusually well placed to dissect the ongoing hype around AI. She’s a data scientist and associate professor at New York University, and she’s been one of the leading researchers in the field of algorithmic bias for years. And though her own work leaves her buried in math problems, she’s spent the last few years thinking about problems that mathematics can’t solve. Broussard argues that we are consistently too eager to apply artificial intelligence to social problems in inappropriate and damaging…

All this outrage is finally having an impact. Bing’s trippy content is generated by AI language technology called ChatGPT developed by startup OpenAI, and last Friday, OpenAI issued a blog post aimed at clarifying how its chatbots should behave. It also released its guidelines on how ChatGPT should respond when prompted with things about US “culture wars.” The rules include not affiliating with political parties or judging one group as good or bad, for example.  I spoke to Sandhini Agarwal and Lama Ahmad, two AI policy…

The prominence of district spending in state politics. Credit: Legislative Studies Quarterly (2023). DOI: 10.1111/lsq.12413 In 1936, when the influential American political scientist Harold Laswell published his seminal work Politics: Who Gets What, When, How, he couldn't have foreseen that the book's title would soon become a standard, lay definition of politics, one that endures to this day.…

An alternative approach to understanding bias in dataImage Credits: PixabayA s the number of data science applications increases, so does the potential for abuse. It is easy to condemn developers or analytics teams for the results of their algorithms, but are they the main culprits? The following article tries to discuss the problem from a different angle and concludes that ethical abuse might be the real problem with data in our society.A better world won’t come about simply because we use data; data has its dark…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Eighty years after the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) carved up the nation's metropolitan neighborhoods into redlined maps, researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine performed an autopsy on the discriminatory lending practice. Specifically, researchers…

Here’s how to not get duped by the dataNormally when you think of bias, you might think about a person’s beliefs that inadvertently shape their assumptions and approach. This is certainly one definition.But bias also refers to how the very data we use for insights can be unsuspectingly skewed and incomplete, distorting the lens through which we see everything.Many — if not most — of the datasets we use in healthcare are inherently biased and could easily lead us astray if we aren’t careful.I’ll specifically focus on three…

What exactly is going on in AI systems plagued by biases?Photo by Pawel Czerwinski on UnsplashThe problem of bias in artificial intelligence (AI) has made many negative headlines recently. The reports showed that AI systems have the potential to unintentionally discriminate against sensitive subgroups. For example, an AI-powered recruiting system by an international technology company was found to systematically favour male applicants over female ones. In this article, I will shed some light on the inner processes which…