The Digital Human: Taint

There are many ways in which the taint of prejudice, outdated ways of thinking and plain old human error can enter our artificial intelligence systems. The weakest link is always where the sticky handprints of humans are most visible. To train AIs, systems need two things - computer vision to precisely identify images, and machine-learning algorithms. They also need a person to label images over and over and over again, so when the AI perceives that image they learn what it is. Aleks Krotoski takes a look at affect recognition and explores how it became part of a multi-billion dollar AI industry