Re:Show HN: ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments...
by butwhywhyoh on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @07:41PM
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What makes it unfortunate that it used masculine pronouns? If it had used purely female pronouns would that make you feel better?
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Re:Show HN: ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments...
by potatoman22 on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @07:52PM
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Probably not. The issue with always using one set of pronouns is that people with other pronouns may feel isolated. For example, always assuming software devs are male could cause female devs to feel like they don't belong.
Realistically, it's really hard to fix this encoded bias in language models.
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by alana314 on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @08:57PM
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It does. Thanks for expressing this.
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by cassonmars on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @09:03PM
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Yeah it’s always annoyingly jarring when people assume that. You can even see in the comments on this topic that people attack the suggestion of gender neutral language, which further compounds on the feeling like we don’t belong or are explicitly unwanted.