A website created to gather faces for an art project has created a controversy over the use of AI to classify human beings. The faces collected at the ImageNet Roulette site are being incorporated into a work of art in Milan, but that is only one reason American artist Trevor Paglen and Microsoft researcher Kate Crawford created the site. “ImageNet Roulette was launched … to draw attention to the things that can — and regularly do — go wrong when artificial intelligence models are trained on problematic training data,” the creators wrote.
Art Project Uncovers Bias in AI Training Models
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. September 24, 2019 03:02 AMA website created to gather faces for an art project has created a controversy over the use of AI to classify human beings. The faces collected at the ImageNet Roulette site are being incorporated into a work of art in Milan, but that is only one reason American artist Trevor Paglen and Microsoft researcher Kate Crawford created the site. “ImageNet Roulette was launched … to draw attention to the things that can — and regularly do — go wrong when artificial intelligence models are trained on problematic training data,” the creators wrote.