Quantum Ep3 - Why do algorithms discriminate?

Algorithms are biased. They don't mean to be, but…

An episode of the The Aviva Podcast podcast, hosted by Aviva, titled "Quantum Ep3 - Why do algorithms discriminate?" was published on December 17, 2019 and runs 18 minutes.

December 17, 2019 ·18m · The Aviva Podcast

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Summary

Algorithms are biased. They don't mean to be, but they are a product of the people who created them. And we all have biases. But we can better understand these biases and make the world would be a much fairer place. So that is the problem Michelle Lee is trying to solve. In this podcast, Ben Moss and Orlando Machado, Chief Data Scientist at Aviva, are back at Cambridge University to find out more about Michelle's work.

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Algorithms are biased. They don't mean to be, but they are a product of the people who created them. And we all have biases. But we can better understand these biases and make the world would be a much fairer place. So that is the problem Michelle Lee is trying to solve. In this podcast, Ben Moss and Orlando Machado, Chief Data Scientist at Aviva, are back at Cambridge University to find out more about Michelle's work.

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