Google CEO Sundar Pichai explained how easy it is to unintentionally create a sexist, racist AI bot

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai explained how easy it is to unintentionally create a sexist, racist AI bot
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Sundar Pichai promised to share what Google is doing with the world to combat AI bias.

He promised to share what Google is doing with the world.

2019 has been the year where major tech companies, led by Microsoft, have been strangely calling for regulation on themselves, or at least around one particular aspect of their technology: artificial intelligence., Sundar Pichai explained what Google is doing to make its own AI less racist and sexist, although he fell short of using the"r" word — a.k.a. regulation — or even hinting that it was needed.

"To be effective, it would need to be able to recognize a wide variety of skin tones, representative of the entire population," he said.

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