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Automated translation is hopelessly sexist, but don’t blame the algorithm or the training data - 11 avril 2021
Automated translation services tend to erase women or reduce them to stereotypes. Simply tweaking the training data or the models is not enough to make translations fair.
Ever since Google Translate launched in the late 2000s, users noticed that it got gender wrong. In the early 2010s, some Twitter users (...)
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How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything - 18 décembre 2020
An exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world’s best accurate maps
Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that’s the key to your queries but hidden from your view. The deep map contains the logic of places : their no-left-turns and freeway on-ramps, speed limits (...)
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Female historians and male nurses do not exist, Google Translate tells its European users - 20 septembre 2020
An experiment shows that Google Translate systematically changes the gender of translations when they do not fit with stereotypes. It is all because of English, Google says.
If you were to read a story about male and female historians translated by Google, you might be forgiven for overlooking the females in the (...)
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Unchecked use of computer vision by police carries high risks of discrimination - 6 mai 2020
At least 11 local police forces in Europe use computer vision to automatically analyze images from surveillance cameras. The risks of discrimination run high but authorities ignore them.
Pedestrians and motorists in some streets of Warsaw, Mannheim, Toulouse or Kortrijk are constantly monitored for abnormal (...)
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Google is fixing gender bias in its Translate service - 7 décembre 2018
Google Translate has previously displayed signs of gender bias by assigning genders to certain adjectives and words describing occupations. Thankfully, the company’s rolling out an update to fix this.
The company said that after the update, Google translate will provide both feminine and masculine translations for (...)
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Google a compris que son algorithme de traduction contenait des biais sexistes - 7 décembre 2018
L’algorithme sur lequel repose le service Google Traduction contenait des biais sexistes. L’entreprise a effectué une mise à jour après l’avoir remarqué lors de tests.
Après Gmail, Google a dû s’occuper des biais sexistes de l’intelligence artificielle (IA) sur lequel repose son service de traduction automatique. Une mise à (...)
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AI can be sexist and racist "” it’s time to make it fair - 15 août 2018
When Google Translate converts news articles written in Spanish into English, phrases referring to women often become "˜he said’ or "˜he wrote’. Software designed to warn people using Nikon cameras when the person they are photographing seems to be blinking tends to interpret Asians as always blinking. Word embedding, (...)
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AI programs exhibit racial and gender biases, research reveals - 14 avril 2017
Machine learning algorithms are picking up deeply ingrained race and gender prejudices concealed within the patterns of language use, scientists say
An artificial intelligence tool that has revolutionised the ability of computers to interpret everyday language has been shown to exhibit striking gender and racial (...)
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Atteintes à la vie privée : l’horreur que nous prépare l’essor de l’Internet des choses - 20 mai 2014
Votre pacemaker désactivé à distance, votre compagnie d’assurance qui suit votre alimentation depuis votre frigo, votre voiture intelligente piratée par des hackers... Le futur que nous prépare l’Internet des objets pourrait bien être un enfer en matière de vie privée et de sécurité.
Atlantico : "L’internet des objets" (...)
The Cloud Has Us All In A Fog - 1er mai 2011
Ever heard of Dropship ? It’s an open-source project that "enables arbitrary, anonymous transfers of files between Dropbox accounts." Dropbox hopes you haven’t ; they tried to squelch it this week, and even accidentally reported that it was subject to a DMCA takedown notice, with predictably futile results. I’m (...)
