By: Agence France-Presse January 10, 2014 1:15 PM <\/p>\n
Detail of the controversial cover of the journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence. 'The front-cover design is not intended to discriminate against women,' the group said in a statement on its website. <\/p>\n
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TOKYO - A Japanese academic society has apologized for the front cover of their journal, which used a drawing of a cleaning woman with a cable in her back to depict the idea of artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n
The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence was hoping to make \"Jinkou Chinou (Artificial Intelligence)\" more appealing to potential readers with a cover illustration on the first edition of the new year. <\/p>\n
Out went the dense tracts of text and complicated diagrams that have adorned the front for the last few decades, and in came an attractive, doe-eyed young woman holding a sweeping brush and with a thick cable plugged into her back. <\/p>\n
A red-faced JSAI admitted Thursday that its attempt to popularize its small-circulation magazine may have misfired and apologized for any offense it had caused. <\/p>\n
\"The front-cover design is not intended to discriminate against women,\" the group said in a statement on its website. <\/p>\n
The design \"gave ... room for the interpretation that women should clean,\" it said. <\/p>\n
\"We deeply regret that, as a public academic group, this matter was not considered more carefully,\" said the statement issued under the names of the journal's chief editor and his deputy, both of whom are scientists. <\/p>\n
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