Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women | Reuters
'They taught each to recognize some 50,000 terms that showed up on past candidates’ resumes. '
'That is because Amazon’s computer models were trained to vet applicants by observing patterns in resumes submitted to the company over a 10-year period. '
'SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women. '
'As for Amazon, the company managed to salvage some of what it learned from its failed AI experiment. '
'Their goal was to develop AI that could rapidly crawl the web and spot candidates worth recruiting, the people familiar with the matter said. '
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'They taught each to recognize some 50,000 terms that showed up on past candidates’ resumes. '
'That is because Amazon’s computer models were trained to vet applicants by observing patterns in resumes submitted to the company over a 10-year period. '
'SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women. '
'As for Amazon, the company managed to salvage some of what it learned from its failed AI experiment. '
'Their goal was to develop AI that could rapidly crawl the web and spot candidates worth recruiting, the people familiar with the matter said. '
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