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Re:AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship by 908B64B197 on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @01:03PM (#26332153)
> funded by government funds, maybe even additionally with an AI regulation fee

Ahh, rent-seeking at it's finest. Do we really want to use the tax payer's money to fund this type of behaviors[0]?

[0] https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/30/yann-lecun-quits-twitter...

Re:AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship by astrange on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @03:56PM (#26334395)
It's good for Yann LeCun to quit Twitter if he's going to say silly things like "AI bias can always be fixed by collecting data" which is not true and not how his own employees fix issues - it's certainly not how the other FAANGs solve problems involving bias. Problems are perfectly capable of happening even if your data is the best it can be!
Re:AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship by 908B64B197 on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @04:24PM (#26334781)
> he's going to say silly things like "AI bias can always be fixed by collecting data"

Except he never said that. He pointed out one algorithm was lazily trained on a non-representative dataset and that it was, therefore, producing biased results.

Re:AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship by astrange on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @05:44PM (#26335872)
The model was also new, so you can't be sure improving the data without doing anything else would fix it. You have to actually try it first.