Fairness
AI killing us is a long way off (if it ever comes down to it), but biases in our technology are with us in the present.
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| Mar 3, 2021 | » | LLMs: Stochastic Parrots 🦜 and How (Not) to Use Them
10 min; updated Dec 14, 2023
was written in a period when NLP practitioners are producing bigger (# of parameters; size of training data) language models (LMs), and pushing the top scores on benchmarks. The paper itself was controversial because it led to Gebru being fired from Google, following disagreements with her managers on conditions (withdraw, or remove Google-affiliated authors) for publishing the paper. A lot changed since mid-2021, when I initially wrote this page.... |
| Oct 4, 2021 | » | Computational Bias and Fairness
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Journal Reviews on Fairness; Rage Against the Algorithm; |
| Sep 18, 2018 | » | On DNA Testing
3 min; updated Sep 5, 2022
The human genome has sequences of nucleotide base pairs that are repeated over and over again. At each locus of interest, a person has two sets of repeats inherited from each parent. Each possible difference at a locus is an allele. The combinations of the possible differences at multiple loci form a DNA profile that can be used to tie suspects to a crime scene. The Accuracy of DNA Testing is Wanting 74/108 crime labs erroneously incriminated a suspect during a mock study.... |