Ricardo Baeza-Yates

“Generative AI has led to interesting applications, such as summarizing texts, composing letters in other languages, and extracting information from documents, but also problematic uses, such as relying on the system to extract factual information when it is really making predictions not searching, or to draw conclusions when it isn’t reasoning,” explains Ricardo Baeza-Yates, research […]

A capability like this shows ways the cloud provider has learned from experiences such as the lawsuit from The New York Times, said Ricardo Baeza-Yates, director of research at the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University.

Voice-based assistants encode biases present in the training examples. These include accent understanding, gender bias, geographic bias, religious bias and so on. Awareness of these biases is the first step. In the near future I expect research will be carried out to understand the impact of these biases on consumers—in the same way that biases […]