Reply to post: Re: :rollseyes:

Someone made an AI that predicted gender from email addresses, usernames. It went about as well as expected

Mark192

Re: :rollseyes:

Wow, a downvote.

It's designed to inform the serving up of ads that have a greater chance of relevance. It has no special knowledge, it just needs to generate a sufficiently higher click through rate than there would be if left to chance in order for people to use it.

People getting outraged because it got their address ProfessorMcGonagall@... as male shouldn't be pissed at this dumb algorithm but should focus their ire on a society where around 70% of professors are male.

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