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Re:Google Translate is inherently biased – An example of an ... by BoiledCabbage on Monday March 22, 2021 @11:34AM (#26542288)
> It's not the AI's inherent bias as such though. It's the bias of the dataset...

An engineer builds a chat protocol and app on top of UDP. Chat messages between users frequently never arrive and are lost.

When questioned about it, the engineer says "it's not my app that causing the message loss it's UDP that's causing it."

The engineer selected the communication protocol.

To avoid packet loss, I build retry logic into my app, or build on top of TCP.

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Re:Google Translate is inherently biased – An example of an ... by csmpltn on Monday March 22, 2021 @12:11PM (#26542792)
> To avoid packet loss, I build retry logic into my app, or build on top of TCP.

What's the "I used TCP instead of UDP" equivalent of a dataset that can be used to build a perfectly non-biased translation service?

Your comment seems to suggest that everybody seems to deliberately choose the wrong datasets which result in racist and sexist products. What should we use instead then?

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Re:Google Translate is inherently biased – An example of an ... by BoiledCabbage on Monday March 22, 2021 @03:34PM (#26545652)
If the underlying layer isn't reliable, build a layer on top to make it reliable.

If the underlying dataset has issues, build a layer on top to address those issues.

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