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Re:OpenAI LP by ckugblenu on Monday March 11, 2019 @12:27PM (#19360217)
Is it just me or there are not many african americans working in AI research and industry. I don't have stats to back me up but that's my personal observation. People in the field, what are your thoughts on it.
Re:OpenAI LP by BucketSort on Monday March 11, 2019 @12:34PM (#19360289)
This twitter may be of interest to you, they aggregate information on this topic. https://twitter.com/black_in_ai. I don't know why race is relevant to this article though. Must we make everything a race issue?
Re:OpenAI LP by josourcing on Monday March 11, 2019 @01:09PM (#19360670)
Thank you for this!!!
Re:OpenAI LP by BucketSort on Monday March 11, 2019 @03:13PM (#19361869)
You're welcome!!!
Re:OpenAI LP by segmondy on Monday March 11, 2019 @12:56PM (#19360538)
There are just not many AA in tech in the bay area. Most pictures from Silicon Valley often look like that.
Re:OpenAI LP by josourcing on Monday March 11, 2019 @01:08PM (#19360654)
I thought a similar thing when I saw that pic: Not a single black male or female. And I'm all like, "Where am I?" LoL
Re:OpenAI LP by nickparker on Monday March 11, 2019 @12:37PM (#19360319)
I don't have any statistics for you, but Google at least is looking to improve on this a bit. A good friend of mine from their NYC Brain office moved to Accra, Ghana just last week to help build out their new office there.
Re:OpenAI LP by perennate on Monday March 11, 2019 @01:06PM (#19360636)
I don't think an office in Ghana would be employing very many African Americans (or, for that matter, very many Americans of any background).
Re:OpenAI LP by duado on Monday March 11, 2019 @01:31PM (#19360877)
A Ghana office would be presumably to recruit Africans, not African Americans. There is a difference :)
Re:OpenAI LP by carapace on Monday March 11, 2019 @01:07PM (#19360640)
Certainly there seem to be no black folks in the photo captioned "OpenAI team and their families at our November 2018 offsite."
Re:OpenAI LP by m0n4d on Monday March 11, 2019 @03:51PM (#19362176)
African-American Founder/Research Engineer of AGI venture (Monad.ai) here. We exist.