Google Translate Learns To Reduce Gender Bias

Google is working to make Translate less gender-biased by giving both a feminine and masculine translation for a single word. 'Previously, the service defaulted to the masculine options,' reports CNET. 'The new function is available when translating words from English into French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish and Spanish. It provides a similar function when translating into English.' From the report: Google Translate learns from the hundreds of millions of already-translated examples available on the internet, creating an opportunity for the tool to incorporate the gender bias it encountered online, according to a Google blog post announcing the change. With the update, Google Translate will present translations for both genders. For example, if you translate 'o bir doktor' from Turkish to English, you'll see 'she is a doctor' and 'he is a doctor' in the translation box. In November, Google also made Gmail's Smart Compose technology stop suggesting gender-based pronouns. Previously, it defaulted to masculine pronouns.

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