I figured that out as a 10-year-old watching Star Trek.
Sherry Jackson on the Star Trek episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" (1966)
Posted on 12/16/2018 12:54:47 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
The challenges of making tech more welcoming for women are numerous, especially in the field of artificial intelligence.
To get a sense of just how monumental a task the tech community faces, look no further than the marquee gathering for AI’s top scientists. Preparations for this year’s event drew controversy not only because there weren’t enough female speakers or study authors. The biggest debate was over the conference’s name. The annual Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems, formerly known as NIPS, had become a punchline symbol about just how bad the gender imbalance is for artificial intelligence. Thousands of AI researchers convened in Montreal last week under a slightly tweaked banner — NeurIPS — but with many of the same problems still under the surface.
AI’s challenge reflects a broader lack of diversity in the tech industry. At major tech companies, women account for 20 percent or fewer of the engineering and computing roles. By some accounts, AI’s gender imbalance is even worse: One estimate by startup incubator Element AI shows women making up just 13 percent of the AI workforce in the U.S.
AI and machine learning can mimic the biases of their human creators as they make their way into consumer products and everyday life.
“The more diversity we have in machine learning, the better job we will do in creating products that don’t discriminate,” said Hanna Wallach, a Microsoft researcher who is a senior program chairwoman of the conference and co-founder of an associated event for women in machine learning.
Critics said [the name] added to a hostile environment that for some women...“This name change has opened up so many of the issues that women and minorities face in tech,” said Animashree Anandkumar, who directs machine-learning research at chipmaker Nvidia.
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Hepta-cincodecimal?
Sounds like they already have, or it wouldn’t be getting airtime.
Now go change my oil and rotate my tires. For those of you outside of useful technologies, those are technologies.
“Hepta-cincodecimal?”
Love it when you talk dirty.
Remember the bridge that came crashing down on the roadway that killed a bunch of people? That’s what happens when you get people in a field of business that have no idea what they are doing.
Hey, pretty design though.
Baracksimation?
I figured that out as a 10-year-old watching Star Trek.
Sherry Jackson on the Star Trek episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" (1966)
We can have a lot of fun with this. But AI is a serious subject. Gender bias is the least of the AI problems.
AI has political and religious and social and scientific bias.
For example, a well known AI firm was came out with a pro-immunization report. The data did not support the conclusion. But the bias did. (The data didn’t support the opposite conclusion either.)
The more diversity we have in machine learning, the better job we will do in creating products that don’t discriminate,” said Hanna Wallach, a Microsoft researcher who is a senior program chairwoman of the conference and co-founder of an associated event for women in machine learning.
I thought we all have nipples? All races, both sexes... kinda silly to assign NIPS to the female gender only?
Yeah, except thinking that math is necessary for engineering is linear, this toxically masculine, thus inherently sexist. If you were woke, you’d realize you can do good engineering with nothing more than emotion.
A bunch of men engineers were at lunch, and an attractive waitress served us. One of the engineers remarked, “Nobody gave her a chance to be an engineer.”I replied, “Tell you what - I’m going to teach her mathematics. After you convince her that (her reproductive opportunities) were nil if she doesn’t learn mathematics.”
Discussion over. Math is a lot harder (for you or for me) than attracting a man was for that gal, and no one doubted it for a microsecond. And she didn’t have to be a genius to know it, and nothing short of her being a true genius would have negated that fact.
More garbage. Money burned trying to get more women into “STEM”. Promoting women who aren’t qualified for diversity... etc etc. nonsense.
Steak sauce.
Wait, all those male engineers have nips too! Can they explain what their nips are for?? ;)
*ouch* To be fair there are 57 States.
In the Organization of Islamic States...
According to one of Heinlein’s characters, they break up the blankness of the male chest.
Then why don’t men have nipples down their backs? Huh? ;)
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