Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google
by fastball on Saturday December 05, 2020 @01:07AM
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Kinda the point though isn't it?
We're only reading a summary of the paper because apparently the authors aren't confident enough in its quality to release it publicly.
You can't claim that Google dismissed this paper out-of-hand while simultaneously saying "oh, but it's too much of a draft to release publicly". Uh, if it was too much of a draft for the public why shouldn't it be too drafty for Google? Are we really pretending that Google has lower standards of quality than the general public?
Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google
by viktorcode on Saturday December 05, 2020 @07:02AM
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That, or Google is censoring the paper because of the conclusion it comes to, which doesn't align with their business interests.
Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google
by juanbyrge on Saturday December 05, 2020 @12:38PM
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If a company is paying a researcher a lofty salary (I am guessing ballpark mid six figures), and provides that researcher virtually unlimited tools and resources, shouldn't that company have a say in what material gets published by the researcher? Why shouldn't it have the ability to restrict research of dubious quality that makes borderline incorrect conclusions about the company?
Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google
by fastball on Saturday December 05, 2020 @11:05AM
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I’m taking the article at face value, which states the authors think it’s too much of a draft.
Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google
by rundigen12 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @11:45AM
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I naively expected this article to include a link to the paper somewhere in it, so we could decide for ourselves. Oh well.
But the research is not even published yet