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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Because OBVIOUSLY the game of chess is biased in male favor! Duh!
Serious? Armenian?
Do we really want AI that is moody and holds a mean grudge forever?
Qquantum computing will take care of that.
But most of the helpful AI voices sound like women - don’t that count for nothing?
Serious, not Armenian.
One aspirin, held between the knees.
Oh, I already knew you were SERIOUS. ;) I thought with your nipple coating hairy back, you might be of Armenian extraction... Not that there is anything wrong with it...
LOL, My boss is an Armenian Turk, even he says Armenians are not noted for their beauty.
Like Adrienne Barbeau, Chuck Connors, Cher, the Kardashians?
There are outliers in every sample...
She lost by one vote---hardly attributable to sexism. excelp by insane liberals......its all about an eight year-old is used to push parental ideology and DNC agenda.....Martha's father is Albert Morales, a former senior DNC official, now a Senior Political Director at DC-based "Latino Decisions" .......
Explains why Hillary sucked-up. She never misses an opportunity to show her obsession with frickin' "diversity."
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