IIT KGP faculty wins Facebook award for research in targeted media bias
If any person has done something great, it must be appreciated right!!! Like that IIT Kharagpur Animesh Mukherjee, Associate professor has been named for Ethics in AI Research Award, which is part of Facebook’s initiative, for his project dealing with bias in Indian media.He has been rewarded for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Award in the ”operationalizing ethics” category for his project “Targeted Bias in Indian Media Outlets”, an IIT KGP statement said on Saturday.
This award is to encourage research on AI ethics and address intricate challenges and complex ethical questions in the AI domain, and is a part of Facebook’s initiative the statement said. It was a collaborative work with Prof Pawan Goyal and PhD student Souvic Chakraborty, deals with the issue of fake news.
Mukherjee, who has been working in the areas of AI, big data analytics and information retrieval, has arrived at a solution in leveraging available information on online published media He also said they have plans to develop browser extensions to show bias score in real time.
As we know smartphone users have been increasing so they need to provide, information available online through automatic algorithms and auto-updating knowledge bases to restrict the spread of falsehood, the statement said.
