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Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by blueblisters on Saturday December 05, 2020 @04:59AM (#25313226)
> Furthermore, even if humans are constantly updating an expert system, the biases inherent in the composition of the company-hired set of experts will limit the representation of minority trends in the data.

Exactly this. Framing it in terms of alternate options makes AI the more reasonable choice.

Google AI appears to have drawn unnecessary attention to themselves for relatively benign paper. Most of the arguments in this paper have already been discussed elsewhere and could be refuted in simple terms.

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Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by ThomPete on Saturday December 05, 2020 @06:45AM (#25313823)
That really depends on the context you think about this paper in. If you see it as Critical race theory activism (which I do) then it's not benign at all on the contrary it's deeply damaging that Google have well paid people who think they should push their own political agendas through an organization that underlines almost everyone in the wests daily lives.
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