Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google

Re:Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google by skywhopper on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:05PM (#25292179)

You don’t understand how trans people might have specific things in common to talk about that non-trans people don’t relate to? These groups aren’t just for political hot topics, but also for parents or for musicians or runners or any other affinity group.

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Re:Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google by PeterStuer on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:14PM (#25292329)

I can surely understand how that can be the case. I just don't see why that would be specifically relevant to generally working on Google Brain.

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Re:Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google by whoknew1122 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:34PM (#25293477)

I can't speak for Google Brain specifically, or AI/ML (I do InfoSec). Perhaps there is a need for discussing the Google Brain project specifically from a woman's point of view.

But when I hear about a 'Google Brain Women and Allies' distro, I'm more thinking about peers which discuss things which impact them. I wouldn't get too hung up about the 'Google Brain' portion of the distro; it's likely just a way to self-select a group of peers which share a common interest.

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