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Why are women beautiful and men intelligent?

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    Lecture for the "Universiteit van Nederland"


    "Google, please translate 'nurse' into French." Nothing wrong with this, right? However nurse can be female or male in French, and machine translation seems to think all nurses are female. Computational Linguist Eva Vanmassenhove explains how computers can be biased - and how we can fix it.

    Period12 Apr 2022

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    • Titlehttps://www.universiteitvannederland.nl/colleges-en/why-are-women-beautiful-and-men-intelligent
      Degree of recognitionNational
      Media name/outletUniversiteit van Nederland
      Media typeWeb
      Duration/Length/Size15 min video
      Country/TerritoryNetherlands
      Date12/04/22
      Description"Google, please translate 'nurse' into French." Nothing wrong with this, right? However nurse can be female or male in French, and machine translation seems to think all nurses are female. Computational Linguist Eva Vanmassenhove explains how computers can be biased - and how we can fix it.
      Producer/AuthorUniversiteit van Nederland
      URLhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG-9DBpfo3w
      PersonsEva Vanmassenhove
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