The five most formidable barriers to achieving widescale adoption in the ethical AI space. With all of the interest in the ethical AI space, the question on everyone’s minds is when the industry will achieve meteoric growth similar to the explosion of cleantech in the late-2000’s or the privacy boom…

And more highlights from the DataRobot “State of AI Bias” Report — DataRobot, an MLOps and AI Cloud provider, has released their “State of AI Bias” report for 2021 in which they’ve interviewed 350+ U.K. and U.S.-based AI and IT leaders. The report contains a ton of telling information about the AI industry as a whole. Here’s a quick summary. Governments should heavily involve themselves in AI regulation and standardization.

A deep dive into the startups devoted to detecting and mitigating bias within the data science lifecycle — and four predictions for the future. — Ethical and responsible AI is all the rage these days, and rightfully so. …

New research into semi-supervised learning suggests that less labeled data actually makes machine learning algorithms more powerful — I used to always think of data as being inherently calm and ordered — a neatly packaged array of information ready to process. I think most people who haven’t had a taste of the chaos of the real world would believe the same. Professionals (or, really, anyone who has worked…

This year was a major one for bias and ethics in AI. Here are the biggest stories. — Computer Vision Image generating algorithms link women to bikinis and Black people to weapons January 2021, OneZero (Medium) [paywall] According to a new research paper, state-of-the-art image processing algorithms like OpenAI’s iGPT and Google’s SimCLRv2 carry significant racial and gender biases when trained on a popular algorithm training dataset, ImageNet. …

AI just isn’t smart enough to be ethical yet (though it is smart enough to collect massive amounts of data on you), but here’s one idea that might move it in the right direction. — Here’s a hypothetical. A man and a woman live together in a single household. Every time the man speaks, he speaks with impatience, cursing loudly at you when you don’t understand his questions. He’s gruff bordering on angry, only talks to you late at night, and only asks about nightclubs and bars.

A sentiment-driven method of identifying which kind of plotline maximizes revenue. — Introduction In today’s world, stories (in TV shows, movies, books, even commercials) generally adopt one of a few famous plotlines. For example, there’s the “rags-to-riches” story in which the main character starts in strife and ends in happiness (e.g. Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, etc.). There’s the “man-in-the-hole”…

Who does the data choose to win the largest international football tournament yet? — The grandest and most exciting of all football tournaments is still a ways off (2022), but in times like these I find solace in the fact that there are better things (like the next World Cup) that are rapidly approaching with every day that passes. The question on everyone’s mind…

Entrepreneurship looks better than ever. Here’s why. All of it starts with an idea. A crazy, beautiful, disruptive idea that changes the world forever. Google was an idea an 1998. Target was an idea in 1902. Entrepreneurship is the process of taking such an idea and transforming it into an…