Category: Gordon Hull
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From the Department of Shameless Self-Promotion, here is the abstract for my new paper, "Dirty Data Labeled Dirt Cheap: Epistemic Injustice in Machine Learning Systems:" "Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) systems increasingly purport to deliver knowledge about people and the world or to assist people in doing so. Unfortunately, they also seem to…
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By Gordon Hull UPDATE: 6/14: Here's a nice takedown ("Nonsense on Stilts") of the idea that AI can be sentient. I don’t remember where I read about an early text-based chatbot named JULIA, but it was likely about 20 years ago. JULIA played a flirt, and managed to keep a college student in Florida flirting…
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By Gordon Hull As a criterion for algorithmic assessment, “fairness” has encountered numerous problems. Many of these emerged in the wake of ProPublica’s argument that Broward County’s pretrial detention system, COMPAS, was unfair to black suspects. To recall: In 2016, ProPublica published an investigation piece criticizing Broward County, Florida’s use of a software program called…
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Luke Stark argues that Facial recognition should be treated as the “plutonium of AI” – something so dangerous that it’s use should be carefully controlled and limited. If you follow the news, you’ll know that we’re currently treating it as the carbon dioxide of AI, a byproduct of profit-making that doesn’t look too awful on…
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People make snap judgments about those they see the first time – mentally categorizing someone as friendly, threatening, trustworthy, etc. Most of us know that those impressions are idiosyncratic, and suffused with cultural biases along race, gender and other lines. So obviously I know what you’re thinking… we need an AI that do that, right? …
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in refusing to grant copyright registration to an AI creation. I suspect this one to be litigated for a while, since the person who has been trying to get protection for the picture has declared limiting copyright to human authors as something that would be unconstitutional (I also think it would be pretty entertaining to…
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If you want to use their website; WaPo has the story here. But it's one of those public/private partnerships where data leaks and hacks and thefts happen. To their credit, the Post went to Joy Buolamwini, whose work proved that facial recognition systems work best on white men and worst on Black women. But even…
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The SCOTUS decision yesterday striking down OSHA’s vaccine mandate is based on some of the most sophomoric reasoning the Court has issued in a long time. And I am aware of what Court I’m talking about. The gist of the argument is that OSHA is only authorized to enact safety rules that protect someone’s at…
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By Gordon Hull Machine Learning (ML) applications learn by repetition. That is, they come to recognize what, say, a chair looks like, by seeing lots of images of chairs that have been correctly labeled as such. Since the machine is trying to figure out a pattern or set of characteristics that distinguish chairs from other…
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(story via Julia Angwin) You might remember that Amazon solemnly swore to Congress that they did not artificially elevate their own products in search results. Except that they do. Adrianne Jeffries and Leon Yin of The Markup used a machine learning algorithm to predict product placement in search results: “We found that knowing only whether…
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