In honor of Mother’s Day here’s a story about a new AI that can judge you just as harshly as your mother in law. In fact, that’s the whole point.
According to Futurism:
“Machine learning researchers are teaching neural networks how to superficially judge humans — and the results are as brutal as they are familiar.
A study about the judgmental AI, published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, describes how researchers trained the model how to judge attributes in human faces, the way we do upon first meeting each other, and how they trained it to manipulate photos to evoke different judgments, such as appearing ‘trustworthy’ or ‘dominant.’
‘Our dataset not only contains bias,’ Princeton computer science postdoctoral researcher Joshua Peterson wrote in a tweet thread about the research, ‘it deliberately reflects it.’
Though it’s fairly esoteric, Suchow noted in the press release that this kind of machine learning can ‘study people’s biased first impressions of one another.’
‘Given a photo of your face, we can use this algorithm to predict what people’s first impressions of you would be,’ he added, ‘and which stereotypes they would project onto you when they see your face.’
With AI bias being an increasingly salient issue, this paradigm twist is as delightful as it is telling. You can check out the interactive research yourself at OneMillionImpressions.com.”
Great. Now we have to worry about what AI thinks about us as well.
Greatest. Idea. Ever. 
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