{"id":943,"date":"2016-09-11T13:13:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T10:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artificialbrain.xyz\/?p=943"},"modified":"2016-11-20T13:23:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T10:23:27","slug":"a-beauty-contest-was-judged-by-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newworldai.com\/a-beauty-contest-was-judged-by-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"A beauty contest was judged by AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A beauty contest was judged by AI and the robots didn&#8217;t like dark skin. The first international beauty contest decided by an algorithm has sparked controversy after the results revealed one glaring factor linking the winners<\/p>\n<p>The first international beauty contest judged by \u201cmachines\u201d was supposed to use objective factors such as facial symmetry to identify the most attractive contestants. After Beauty.AI launched this year, roughly 6,000 people from more than 100 countries submitted photos in the hopes that artificial intelligence, would determine that their faces most closely resembled \u201chuman beauty\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Out of 44 winners, nearly all were white, a handful were Asian, and only one had dark skin.<\/p>\n<p>Winners of the Beauty.AI contest in the category for women aged 18-29.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-945\" src=\"http:\/\/artificialbrain.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/AI-beauty-contest-450x270.jpg\" alt=\"ai-beauty-contest\" width=\"760\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newworldai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/AI-beauty-contest-450x270.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.newworldai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/AI-beauty-contest-250x150.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.newworldai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/AI-beauty-contest-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.newworldai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/AI-beauty-contest-833x500.jpg 833w, https:\/\/www.newworldai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/AI-beauty-contest.jpg 1010w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alex Zhavoronkov, Beauty. AI\u2019s chief science officer, said \u201cIf you have not that many people of color within the dataset, then you might actually have biased results,\u201d \u201cWhen you\u2019re training an algorithm to recognize certain patterns \u2026 you might not have enough data, or the data might be biased.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Humans who create the algorithms have their own deeply entrenched biases. That means that despite perceptions that algorithms are uniquely objective, they can often reproduce existing prejudices.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CcPZyLiGMMc\" width=\"760\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bernard Harcourt, Columbia University professor of law and political science, said that The Beauty.AI results offer \u201cthe perfect illustration of the problem\u201d, \u201cThe idea that you could come up with a culturally neutral, racially neutral conception of beauty is simply mind-boggling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The case is a reminder that \u201chumans are really doing the thinking, even when it\u2019s couched as algorithms and we think it\u2019s neutral and scientific\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/sep\/08\/artificial-intelligence-beauty-contest-doesnt-like-black-people\">FULL STORY<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beauty contest was judged by AI and the robots didn&#8217;t like dark skin. 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