How an AI learns · part 5 of 11 · Biased data and representative data

How did an AI learn to mark down women?

An AI learns from twenty past hiring decisions, card by card, to take a star off CVs that say women's. Then boards of face photos and a smart speaker show the same thing with photos and voices, and the missing cases are added in each scene. Turn the share of women's CVs in the training data and watch the toy penalty fade to zero.

What you turn: Share of women's CVs in the training data

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