Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry

Re:Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry by hn_throwaway_99 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @11:56PM (#19579554)

Agreed, thank you very much for posting. I don't know who Kelsey Piper is, but I feel it's exceedingly rare when I read something on Twitter that makes me come away feeling like I learned something at a deeper level.

I'd encourage other folks to read the whole thread. It's not really mainly about Kay Cole James, more about how the whole panel looked like simply a PR exercise from the start, and I especially liked how she compares it against what OpenAI is doing.

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Re:Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry by MBlume on Friday April 05, 2019 @01:26AM (#19579953)

She's actually the one who broke the story https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/4/18295933/google-...

Not sure why the Reuters follow-up made the front page instead.

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Re:Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry by Symmetry on Friday April 05, 2019 @07:41AM (#19581558)

Kelsey is frankly one of the best communicators I know. I was very glad to hear that she became a journalist because I've been a fan of her Tumblr[1] for years.

[1]https://theunitofcaring.tumblr.com/

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Re:Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry by Mirioron on Sunday April 07, 2019 @01:02AM (#19594934)

I read her piece on the AlphaStar StarCraft 2 match and it was quite wrong. Even the basic idea that the AI crushed pro gamers while being more limited than humans was completely wrong. Anybody that has played the game even a bit saw that the AI did things that are physically impossible to do for a human. So, I'm not so sure about being one of the best communicators.

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