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Removing gender bias from algorithms

  • Written by James Zou, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University
imageCan machine learning help us find – and reduce – gender bias?Doctor/nurse via shutterstock.com

Machine learning is ubiquitous in our daily lives. Every time we talk to our smartphones, search for images or ask for restaurant recommendations, we are interacting with machine learning algorithms. They take as input large amounts of raw...

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