4.4 • 221 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Have you ever turned to a smart assistant on your phone or a speaker to catch up on the progress of a big sports match? During the Women's Football World Cup one popular device failed to recognise the women's semi-final as a football match. We explore why, and other biases that exist in AI. We also answer another listener question to explore AI in drug and vaccine discovery, and meet the people in Malaysia and Japan who are among Wikipedia’s top editors.
(Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images: Goal picture from the World Cup semi-final match between Australia and England at Stadium Australia on August 16, 2023)
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1:08.1 | Were you one of the millions of people who tuned in to watch Spain win the |
1:12.0 | Women's Football World Cup? Perhaps if you missed the match, or indeed any of the games, |
1:16.5 | you asked a smart assistant on your phone or speaker what the score was. |
1:19.9 | There aren't any England-Australia football matches on the 16th of August 23. |
1:26.3 | That wasn't quite the right answer. |
1:28.6 | That's what happened when Amazon's device, the Echo, was asked for details of the |
1:32.9 | semi-final game between Australia and England. |
1:35.8 | It seemed the AI involved was only considering the men's game as football. |
1:40.2 | We'll explore why and what other biases might exist in the AI we interact with in everyday life. |
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