
Episode 1157 • • 1:08:44 - 1:13:48
1157: Carbon Captions
Human Reviewers and Inherent Bias in Google Training
The training of Google's machine learning models relies on tens of thousands of human reviewers who tag search results based on their own subjective interpretations. Because the workforce and the company culture are predominantly left-leaning, the resulting data sets used to "teach" the algorithm are inherently biased toward liberal perspectives.
