Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by dash2 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:20PM
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I'm torn on this. Actually, if you think you're a researcher and then feedback comes in this weird way, that seems pretty weird.
At the same time... "people like me who are constantly dehumanized" - really? I mean maybe, but to me this sounds like hyperbole, and actually, weaponized hyperbole. This is someone who's a respected and presumably very highly paid researcher. Dehumanized?
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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by adamsea on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:27PM
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“People like me,” not referring to her privilege, but to women and people of color, I would guess. Since there are serious culture and systemic biases / prejudices against women and PoC.
Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by dash2 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:30PM
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Sure, but either she's constantly dehumanized or she isn't, and if she's actually rather powerful and important, and is then claiming that by being a black woman, she automatically gets a share in the victimhood, then that doesn't seem very convincing.