Algorithms don't like women

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amp.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/10/amazon-hiring-ai-gender-bias-recruiting-engine?__twitter_impression=true
Amazon ditched AI recruiting tool that favored men for technical jobs
Specialists had been building computer programs since 2014 to review résumés in an effort to automate the search process

Tell us something new.

Any algorithm is only ever as good as the person or people that wrote the decision making and logic behind it. If checks and balances for bias or invalid inferences and weightings were not applied, which sounds like what happened here, then it should rightly be junked.

What the tool did was reflect their existing biases, the tool isn't the problem their recruitment process and people are

Isn't it interesting how it's showing up?