Computer Vision News - April 2020

2 Summary Wo en in Computer Vision 4 intelligence is discriminating against people that are historically discriminated against. What we do here at Microsoft is enabling the development and deployment of artificial intelligence in a responsible way. I personally drive product efforts behind two of those efforts. One is machine learning interpretability, which helps you to understand how the model comes up with predictions. The other is a machine learning fairness toolkit, which allows you to investigate how your model is treating different demographics of your data. Both of these toolkits are open source. I drive a lot of open source efforts with close connections and communication with Microsoft Research. Then also we Mehrnoosh Sameki is a Senior Technical Program Manager at Microsoft Azure. Read more interviews with exceptional female scientists here. Mehrnoosh, tel l us about your job. Sure! I am a product manager. I drive product efforts behind a bunch of responsible AI efforts. AI is affecting people in an adverse way. Artificial intelligence is everywhere, and in a lot of cases, it is being trained on top of data that is historically biased or is coming from society. It contains some societal bias inside its heart. Because of that, artificial intelligence learns those biases. As a result, you will see that artificial “Throughout the whole history, Iranian women were always the trailblazers!”