AI is worse at identifying household items from lower-income countries

Object recognition algorithms sold by tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, perform worse when asked to identify items from lower-income countries.
These are the findings of a new study conducted by Facebook’s AI lab, which shows that AI bias can not only reproduce inequalities within countries, but also between them.Algorithms were up to 20 percent less accurate in lower-income households
In the study (which we spotted via Jack Clark’s Import AI newsletter),resea