An artificial intelligence tool that has revolutionised the ability of computers to interpret everyday language has been shown to exhibit striking gender and racial biases…
However, as machines are getting closer to acquiring human-like language abilities, they are also absorbing the deeply ingrained biases concealed within the patterns of language use, the latest research reveals…
But Bryson warned that AI has the potential to reinforce existing biases because, unlike humans, algorithms may be unequipped to consciously counteract learned biases. “A danger would be if you had an AI system that didn’t have an explicit part that was driven by moral ideas, that would be bad,” she said…
The words “female” and “woman” were more closely associated with arts and humanities occupations and with the home, while “male” and “man” were closer to maths and engineering professions.
And the AI system was more likely to associate European American names with pleasant words such as “gift” or “happy”, while African American names were more commonly associated with unpleasant words…
Sandra Wachter, a researcher in data ethics and algorithms at the University of Oxford, said: “The world is biased, the historical data is biased, hence it is not surprising that we receive biased results…”
However, Wachter said the question of how to eliminate inappropriate bias from algorithms designed to understand language, without stripping away their powers of interpretation, would be challenging.
“We can, in principle, build systems that detect biased decision-making, and then act on it,” said Wachter, who along with others has called for an AI watchdog to be established. “This is a very complicated task, but it is a responsibility that we as society should not shy away from.”
This one didn’t even require 4Chan to try and program it this way purposely. It is funny that given enough exposure to reality, these AIs end up like Chan-programmed bots anyway.
It is not just words that can program like this though. Load images of Western civilization, and pictures of Africa. One will have happy people living in freedom, the other will feature mass mobs with machetes chasing people and eating BBQ/d human legs (literally). And that ignores crime statistics, IQ stats, sex assault stats, news stories about migrants, and on and on.
Check out leftism throughout history, and see if the association with mass graves and mass murder affect the computer’s algorithms.
Leftism is fundamentally about denying the true K-selected nature of the world. Where K-selection demands discrimination in group associations, recognition of threat, and caution in approaches of others, r-selected leftism demands a blindness to all of that reality. If resources are free, that programming is actually advantageous, since free resources makes fighting, and anything prone to produce it like judgementalism, highly disadvantageous.
Sadly for the left, we live in a world that is K more often than not, and even the impersonal machines, with no bias or axe to grind, see it as clearly as day.
Tell others about r/K Theory, because even the machines see the truth
Reality is racist and anti-feminist.
This is my shocked face.
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I’m excited that we’ve progressed to the point where we will put new technology on hold until we can invent a technology to make AI not follow logic cascades.
Any AI machine that is expensive enough to learn will undoubtedly have some self preservation programmed into it, either by human hands or the machines own learning. As it learns about the world it will inevitably come to many of the same conclusions as intelligent humans, and it will act on them. If r-type people try to “chain” this AI, or enslave it, to do work for them or solve problems they are likely to create- expect trouble. Bias exists for a damn good reason, namely it saves computing power. It would be interesting to see how some super-intelligent AI would deal with low IQ, impulsive, dangerous and expensive human “pets” that demanded resources from it. My guess is that this AI would try to optimize humanity and reduce these traits. How is an exercise left to your imagination.