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Equity is a codeword for quotas. In the world of “bias-free” algorithm testing, bias is built-in to achieve equity. What happened with Gemini is an example of such programming.
It's been 25 years since the death of Maryland hoops star Len Bias, who led Maryland to the second round of the 1986 NCAA Tournament. During his four-year career, Bias never made it past the Sweet ...
When it comes to hiring diverse candidates, good intentions do not necessarily lead to good results. Often well-intentioned hiring managers end up inadvertently weeding out qualified candidates ...
Users found that Twitter's photo preview feature chose to favor white faces more frequently than Black ones. Is it a case of algorithmic bias?
Like all behavioral challenges in life, the first step is to admit that your bias will always exist and needs to be managed.
Their results are illuminating. Two prominent research-image collections—including one supported by Microsoft and Facebook—display a predictable gender bias in their depiction of activities ...
As part of the hacker conference DEF CON, Twitter will pay for help solving the apparent issue of racial bias in its photo cropping algorithm.
Twitter has raised the possibility of dropping its image-cropping algorithm, after it repeatedly cropped a Black man's face out of a picture, favoring a white man's face instead.
The president of the University of New Hampshire said Wednesday he is troubled and offended by many parts of a "bias-free language guide" posted on the school's website.