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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I fail to see any problem. Who’s blowing the alarm in the areas where women greatly outnumber men about it being such a terrible problem as it is now, and that reaources and incentives and laws must be pushed through to correct this terrible imbalance?
Or that because the percentafes of men in women in all jobs are not equal or woman dominant, there’s something wrong.
There’s nothing wrong except their liberal socialist interprerations and assumptions.
Try insane 28 days a month, bipolar for one of those weeks, and out on sick leave the last few days.
Heinz-Kerry.
The human mind has an intellect and emotions. If you create AI you have to program in a simulation of emotions. Whose do you choose? A man’s or a woman’s? They are different, as every married man knows.
Do you want the intelligence ruled by emotions? Or do you want the two in a harmonious balance?
Funny, if men are women and women are men then there is no gender gap because according to the left there honestly is no such thing as gender.
We have hair...
Ask yourself why there are Chess Tournaments and Chess Titles restricted to women.
ML/NJ
Logic. You are using logic.
Logic does not apply to politically correct discussions.
I am not being funny. That is where the term "politically correct" comes from.
Some Leftist/communist/progressive would state, about an obvious illogical statement in the party doctrine: That is not correct.
The response would be, yes, but it is politically correct.
The object of political correctness is not to describe reality or solve problems.
The object is to transfer power to the Left.
Oh, so you live in Glendale, CA? (Wink)
Used to.
And what about the NBA?? Only racism can explain it!
Targeted Information Technology Systems.
Someone who gets it. You get my vote.
bullshit. There were exactly as many females in those positions as there should be.
By definition: You EARN that position, by doing meaningful work.
If the number of women happens to be zero ... so be it.
Get her involved and we’ll have Artificial Insane Stupidity.
Why?
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