Re:A.I. Systems Echo Biases They’re Fed, Putting Scientists ...
by majormajor on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @01:41PM
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Your definition of "AI" seems to be "summary statistics" if all it's doing is saying "here's the current distribution." Men vs women seems like a pretty unsophisticated and crude feature.
If AI's going to be useful it would be able to find out deeper underlying things, faster than we can ourselves. If bias exists in people today, it's going to skew outcomes, so looking at stats on current outcomes alone isn't going to tell you much. An AI that's blind to conditioning and upbringing and everything else that's part of society is not a particularly useful AI, you could replace them with any average person off the street's naive "common sense."
If AI's going to be useful it would be able to find out deeper underlying things, faster than we can ourselves. If bias exists in people today, it's going to skew outcomes, so looking at stats on current outcomes alone isn't going to tell you much. An AI that's blind to conditioning and upbringing and everything else that's part of society is not a particularly useful AI, you could replace them with any average person off the street's naive "common sense."