Stereotypes are not all bad
I am not sure describing any application of machine learning as AI is anything but misleading. Yes it is in th efield of AI but it is not at all as many people assume AI means. Naturally whatever patterns are in the training data will be reflected in the result. This may include invalid but widespread assumptions or biases but stereotypes contain useful information. Inapproprite application of stereotypes is a bad thing because they oversimplify the messy reality that characteristics are multi-dimensional, distributions rather than simple bi-modal values and many things are difficult to define precisely let alone measure but at the same time research has shown that peoples stereotypes are surprisingly accurate being well correlated with actual statistical measures. We could not function without them, reality is too complex for us, we need the simplification that stereotypes give. They often embody useful if imperfect information.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
