Re:OpenAI LP
by ckugblenu on Monday March 11, 2019 @12:27PM
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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.
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Re:OpenAI LP
by BucketSort on Monday March 11, 2019 @12:34PM
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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
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Thank you for this!!!
Re:OpenAI LP
by BucketSort on Monday March 11, 2019 @03:13PM
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You're welcome!!!
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
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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
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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.
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).
A Ghana office would be presumably to recruit Africans, not African Americans. There is a difference :)
Certainly there seem to be no black folks in the photo captioned "OpenAI team and their families at our November 2018 offsite."