Robots running on artificial intelligence software will inherit the same biases AI gets from humans Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images
A robot running an artificial intelligence (AI) model carries out actions that perpetuate racist and sexist stereotypes, highlighting the issues that exist when tech learns from data sets with inherent biases.
Andrew Hundt at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and his colleagues set up a virtual experiment using a robot running CLIP, a neural network developed by a company called OpenAI and trained by pairing together images taken from the internet and accompanying text prompts.
The virtual robot, operating in…
