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Facebook dataset combats AI bias by having people self-identify age and gender

Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. Facebook today open-sourced a dataset designed to surface age, gender, and skin tone biases in computer vision and audio machine learning models. The company claims that the corpus — Casual Conversations — is the first of its kind featuring paid people who explicitly provided their age and gender as opposed…
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Study suggests that AI model selection might introduce bias

Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. The past several years have made it clear that AI and machine learning are not a panacea when it comes to fair outcomes. Applying algorithmic solutions to social problems can magnify biases against marginalized peoples; undersampling populations always results in worse predictive accuracy. But bias in AI…
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Synthesis AI emerges from stealth with $4.5M to create synthetic face datasets

Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. Synthesis AI, a synthetic data company, today emerged from stealth with the announcement that it closed a $4.5 million funding round. The startup says that the capital will allow it to expand its R&D team and develop new synthetic data technologies. Self-driving vehicle companies alone spend billions of…
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Snorkel AI’s app development platform lures $35M

Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. Snorkel AI, a startup developing data labeling tools aimed at enterprises, today announced that it raised $35 million in a series B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The funding…
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Government audit of AI with ties to white supremacy finds no AI

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. In April 2020, news broke that Banjo CEO Damien Patton, once the subject of profiles by business journalists, was previously convicted of crimes committed with a white supremacist group. According to OneZero’s analysis of grand jury testimony and hate crime prosecution documents, Patton pled guilty to…
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