AI Is More Likely to Misidentify Women's Masks

A Wunderman Thompson data scientist found that computer vision was often fooled

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The artificial intelligence powering computer vision is much more likely to mislabel protective masks as things like duct tape, jewelry and gags when women are wearing them than men, according to a new experiment from a data scientist at Wunderman Thompson.

The agency’s director of data science, Ilinca Barsan, recently published a blog post in which she tested 530 images, split evenly between men and women, wearing masks on three major artificial intelligence-powered object recognition systems from Google, Microsoft and IBM.

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