Relentlessness and fearlessness are inherently masculine words? So if I want to find candidates with the qualities of relentlessness and fearlessness, I need gender neutral synonyms for these now... Bloomberg I think this is getting out of hand.

Without taking gender into account, the word relentlessness sounds more like a negative trait than a positive one. They're someone who's unwilling to deviate from their plan of action, because their plan is to just head straight for the goal.

I'd go with dauntlessness, someone who's dauntless won't let an obstacle stop them, but will go around it instead of through it.

That's dodging the issue though... the issue was that relentless is apparently masculine. What if they say the same thing about dauntless?

I don't think relentless has to be as mindless as you say. Someone who gets in the zone and attacks a hard problem 20 different ways until they solve it is relentless in my books.

...and the females seem to be "a lake of Asians" no?

It's possible that adding women will fix some things, but that's just one binary aspect of human diversity. The diversity within a team will always be multiple magnitudes smaller than the diversity of the world.

There are already plenty of problems with accents and speech recognition. I recall people's issues with the Sony voice control game Lifeline where people had to fake a Japanese accent to get it to accept commands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7TacvYrnjI

Adding women to whatever team made that wouldn't have fixed anything. They'd have had to go out and study other accents and factor them in.

anyone else find it somewhat creepy that Siri, Cortana etc. all have female voices/names?