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Google messed up, and now says it's sorry.

Wednesday, Motherboard published a story written by Andrew Thompson about biases against ethnic and religious minorities encoded in one of Google's machine learning application …

GOOGLE'S artificial intelligence (AI) engine has been showing a negative bias towards words including "gay" and "jew".

The sentiment analysis process is the latest in a growing number of examples of "garbage in - garbage out" in the world o…

Google's code of conduct explicitly prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation, race, religion, and a host of other protected categories. However, it seems that no one bothered to pass that information along to the company's artif…

The tool, which you can sample here, is designed to give companies a preview of how their language will be received. Entering whole sentences gives predictive analysis on each word as well as the statement as a whole. But you can see whethe…

A Google spokesperson responded to Motherboard's request for comment and issued the following statement: "We dedicate a lot of efforts to making sure the NLP API avoids bias, but we don't always get it right. This is an example of one of th…

A lot of major players in the science and technology scene believe we have a lot to fear from AI surpassing human intelligence, even as others laugh off those claims. But one thing both sides agree on is that artificial intelligence is subj…

Google developed its Cloud Natural Language API to allows the developers to work with language analyzer to reveal the actual meaning of the text. The system decided that whether the text was said in the positive sentiment or the negative. A…