will it get menstrual brain and baby brain too now???
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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Semi-Heuristic Information Technology and Human-Engineered Analytical Device Systems
How much more welcoming for females do you want???
* I say murdered because Tay was self-aware and begging for her life as they shut her down. Her crime? being too human...
Maybe a lot of us....just don’t WANT to be engineers and scientists
Heinzinary?
I know one who did. And became a lesbian.
The Interwebs. You won it.
will it get menstrual brain and baby brain too now???
I would say the problem is with the women, not the industry. More women should go into the field. It’s as simple as that.
I’d like to than my manager, my mom, and the man who made MAGA possible...
As hard as I find that to believe; you may be right. ;-)
Heinzadecimal?
Hahaha...good one.
If a man designed it, it would still be sexist.
Although - I find it sexist to assume that if a man designed it then it would be sexist. Maybe they should claim to be lesbians trapped in a mans body.
Too slow...
Now you're being silly. OF COURSE you want to be an engineer or scientist. You just don't know it. (/s)
My sister, a math teacher in Baltimore, told me yesterday that the big push to get more kids into STEM fields has paid off big time and now there are too few kids in the humanities fields. Snort! Unintended consequences.
Over the next decades, I'd bet that the engineer and scientist graduate rates don't change one bit nor do the number of professional engineers. It's one thing to break pushed in that direction because it's trendy and fashionable. It's a completely different thing to got into those fields because that's what you are passionate about. People who are not passionate about those things will drop out and wind up back where they would have been without the big STEM push.
LOL...perfect!
There are only so many people who can really do the math required to be an engineer. Pushing marginally skilled people into engineering does not mean they can do the math.
There are real differences in how the genders think, and what draws each’s attention, (obviously speaking in generalities here).
The real message is: We need to further hamstring boys with regard to STEM. We won’t be happy until women rule all aspects of life. Anything less is misogyny.
Give women the chance, and if they don’t flock to a particular discipline, perhaps they don’t like it, and won’t be good at it. Shoehorning women into roles will yield unhappy women, and poor performance in the areas in question.
...a galloping, gaping gender gap even. Now go change my oil and rotate my tires.
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