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Re:Nvidia’s Director of AI research is publicly sharing name... by loopz on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:27PM (#25425915)
It makes you wonder what AI's purposes are worked on to be. Nothing good if this is the standard.

However, I expect professional companies to allow employees to take down inappropriate content. It's tough to navigate stupid though, because they tend to drag everyone down. Social media giving voice to evil, is cause for concern.

Re:Nvidia’s Director of AI research is publicly sharing name... by shadowgovt on Monday December 14, 2020 @09:24PM (#25426283)
On the contrary, I think she's positioned to be asking exactly the right questions about AI's purpose. Specifically, there's a lot of potential societal harm if we let people base too much action on the relatively simple correlative rules that modern ML sports.
Re:Nvidia’s Director of AI research is publicly sharing name... by loopz on Monday December 14, 2020 @09:48PM (#25426412)
Is that why she's doxxing people on her twitter block list, for the greater good?
Re:Nvidia’s Director of AI research is publicly sharing name... by shadowgovt on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:10PM (#25426528)
Is she doxxing them? All I've seen is screenshots of her block list, which is data provided directly and immediately by Twitter. That's as much "doxxing" as calling someone by their common name in public.
Re:Nvidia’s Director of AI research is publicly sharing name... by loopz on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:24PM (#25426604)
I'll call out such antisocial behaviour from Trump as for this Nvidia director. You could say it's childish, but these people get off abusing whatever power they can get. It's disconcerting.
Re:Nvidia’s Director of AI research is publicly sharing name... by shadowgovt on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:38PM (#25426683)
Having never met her, I won't pretend to know what she gets off on.

But I have seen Twitter brigading, and I don't have a good suggestion on how to deal with it. She's taking a novel approach of asking friends of followers to intercede. If it works, it could serve as a model for diffusing brigades, which would be nice to have.

(I wouldn't consider anything regarding Trump to be a useful model here. The power difference between any corporate director and a President is too significant).

Re:Nvidia’s Director of AI research is publicly sharing name... by loopz on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:57PM (#25426811)
I'll let my soul mate dispell such limiting thoughts:

https://www.twitter.com/desiraethinking

Re:Nvidia’s Director of AI research is publicly sharing name... by shadowgovt on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:58PM (#25426827)
What an I supposed to see? I'm not going to read someone's entire Twitter timeline, especially someone I've never heard of.
Re:Nvidia’s Director of AI research is publicly sharing name... by loopz on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @01:08AM (#25427508)
Not really sure. It's confounding :)
Re:Nvidia’s Director of AI research is publicly sharing name... by raxxorrax on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @04:08AM (#25428438)
Heh, It doesn't seem to be the case here, does it? Putting people on lists is not preventing societal harm, especially since nvidia is known to put pressure on reviewers.

Don't know her and don't know the people on the list, but that certainly isn't anywhere near the problems that AI might pose to society. The tweet is deleted though and it is obvious why that is the case.