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17th April 2018 - Link Blog

Text Embedding Models Contain Bias. Here's Why That Matters (via) Excellent discussion from the Google AI team of the enormous challenge of building machine learning models without accidentally encoding harmful bias in a way that cannot be easily detected.

Posted 17th April 2018 at 8:54 pm

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