The Aesthetics of Machine Learning

Art is not for humans

With art, we gain empathy and insight into human culture, and we are more likely to make better decisions.

We could also say that we become more prone to unethical actions when disregarding aesthetics. Human bias seeps into machine learning as engineers fit models to past data. People make decisions based on visual and emotional cues and are often unaware that they do so. Data scientists usually get carried away with numbers and subsequently ignore human emotion.

Ethical AI builds machine learning models that don't perpetrate harm against people or planet Earth.

While aesthetics have been dismissed as a frill in the history of humanity, machine learning is a discipline that still needs to be fully understood. Furthermore, the influence of sensibility is a theme not explored in machine learning. This article explores how aesthetic sensibility, the sense of beauty, can influence ethical action in the field of AI.

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