Algorithms · October 2018Gaffe level: Typo
Amazon's AI Recruiter Taught Itself to Discriminate Against Women
Amazon's resume-screening AI learned the company's old hiring patterns a little too well and penalized resumes containing the word women's. Amazon scrapped the tool before it ever touched a real candidate.
Source: Reuters
AI Avatars Translate Speech Into Kenyan Sign Language in Real Time
Kenyan engineer Elly Savatia built Terp360, an AI platform that translates speech into Kenyan Sign Language in real time using 3D avatars, with more than 2,300 signs recorded alongside deaf Kenyans. It won the 2025 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, and the team has released an open dataset of nearly 12,000 sign-language motion sequences.
Source: The Eastleigh Voice