Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI bias

Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI... by fny on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @01:08AM (#23697938)

I'm not clear about how Yann does not take it seriously? He even admitted respect for Gebru's work. He's just making a technical claim that this is due to data bias. Whether that's true, who knows, but I really don't see how he is being callous in all of this.

I'm not sure I understand what the issue is at all.

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Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI... by zucker42 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @07:55AM (#23700435)

To agree with your point, LeCun did many things which indicate he takes this seriously:

1. Responded with a detailed summary of his views.

2. Said he was open to changing his mind in the face of convincing arguments; indicated a desire to learn.

3. Asked people to stop attacking his opponent, in response to unfair attacks on her.

4. Only a week ago, sent multiple tweets out about the problems with a paper which demonstrated racial bias. https://medium.com/@CoalitionForCriticalTechnology/abolish-t...

There's something in between not taking someone seriously and agreeing with their argument.

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