February 20, 2020 05:43 pm
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Google AI tool will no longer use gendered labels like woman or man in photos of people
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An artificial intelligence tool Google provides to developers won’t add gender labels to images anymore, saying a person’s gender can’t be determined just by how they look in a photo, Business Insider reports.
The company emailed developers today about the change to its widely used Cloud Vision API tool, which uses AI to analyze images and identify faces, landmarks, explicit content, and other recognizable features. Instead of using “man” or “woman” to identify images, Google will tag such images with labels like “person,” as part of its larger effort to avoid instilling AI algorithms with human bias.
In the email to developers announcing the change, Google cited its own AI...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/20/21145356/google-ai-images-gender-bias-labels-people
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