WASHINGTON : Google aforementioned Th it had been tweaking its translation application with the goal of reducing gender bias.
The move comes amid criticism that Google Translate typically defaulted to masculine names once it reborn text to a different language.
Over the course of this year, there’s been an endeavor across Google to push fairness and cut back bias in machine learning,” product manager James Kuczmarski aforementioned during a diary post.
Up to now, the translate program provided just one translation for a question, typically selecting the masculine word for terms like “doctor,” and also the female word for “nurse,” as an example.
Now you’ll get each a female and masculine translation for one word — like ‘surgeon’ — once translating from English into French, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish,” he said.
Google aforementioned it had been about to extend gender-specific translations to a lot of languages, “and address gender bias in options like question auto-complete.”
And we’re already puzzling over the way to address non-binary gender in translations, although it’s not a part of this first launch,” Kuczmarski extra.
