Facebooks feckless Fairness Flow wont repair its damaged AI

Facebook straight away posted a blog post detailing a three-year-old solution to its fashionable AI problems: an set of rules inspector that only works on a number of the company’s strategies. Up front: Called Fairness Flow, the new diagnostic instrument lets in system finding out developers at Facebook to determine whether or not or now not positive kinds of system finding out strategies come with bias in opposition to or […]
Facebook today posted a blog post detailing a three-year-old solution to its modern AI problems: an algorithm inspector that only works on some of the company’s systems. Up front: Called Fairness Flow, the new diagnostic tool allows machine learning developers at Facebook to determine whether certain kinds of machine learning systems contain bias against or […]Original article
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