You know there is this idea out there in left land that AI is "biased" because it is "mis-fed" information. The reason they say this is because when AI is given data on things like crime, the AI quickly figures out inconvenient patterns that people in certain quarters would rather not have known.
So now there is more embarrassment from the AI:
Remember: There is no such thing as race.
The study found that an artificial intelligence program trained to read X-rays and CT scans could predict a person’s race with 90 percent accuracy. But the scientists who conducted the study say they have no idea how the computer figures it out.
Of course they have to say this:
"At a time when AI software is increasingly used to help doctors make diagnostic decisions, the research raises the unsettling prospect that AI-based diagnostic systems could unintentionally generate racially biased results."
Hello. It's not "racially biased" it's actual data.
"But how? Ghassemi and her colleagues remain baffled, but she suspects it has something to do with melanin, the pigment that determines skin color. Perhaps X-rays and CT scanners detect the higher melanin content of darker skin, and embed this information in the digital image in some fashion that human users have never noticed before. It’ll take a lot more research to be sure."
So it's more than color eh?
"“You call this race. I call this geographical variation,”"
Hey stupid: Race evolved *because of* geography. These people will jump through umpteen hoops to avoid the obvious.
"We cannot rush bringing the algorithms to hospitals and clinics until we’re sure they’re not making racist decisions or sexist decisions.”"
And here is the meat. See, because these people are uncomfortable with the data, they are going to corrupt the algorithms so that they can feel comfortable. It's not the AI being sexist or racist, it's these researchers who ARE racist and sexist and putting that into the programs.
