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Nvidia CEO tells female raffle winner: “You don’t even know what a GPU is, huh?”
- Cyph0n 10y agoI usually don't think too highly of PC in general, but this was simply uncalled for. Why say anything, man?
- tracker1 10y agoI think it was an off the cuff attempt at humor, and just wasn't good. Some people shouldn't improvise. It was definitely offensive, though I also think some of the reactions are over the top.
- sleazebreeze 10y agoThe article doesn't actually say this, but the comment starts around 42:30 in the video [1]. It's as amazingly bad as you can expect. [1] http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fWbQyaEMfbh http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fWbQyaEMfbh
- daenz 10y agoWhat's always the interesting to me about these kinds of unfortunate interactions is how amplified they become as they are reported. The title of the post is "Dumb Widdle Girls in Tech." A quote from the author: "It’s impressive that you overcame the intellectually debilitating condition of being female to understand the nuances of deep learning." To be fair, much of the post was balanced, but those 2 things stood out to me. I'm not defending what Huang said at all, but I do think that it's unfortunate that the worst possible extreme sexism is always assumed at the slightest off-color remark. Should remarks like these be career or position-ending? Let's see what happens.
- LyndsySimon 10y ago> I'm not defending what Huang said at all, but I do think that it's unfortunate that the worst possible extreme sexism is always assumed at the slightest off-color remark. I've almost always been opposed to the forced cultural changes that our industry has dealt with in the past few years - but come one. This wasn't an "off-color remark", it was offensive and I can see no way it could have been intended otherwise.
- daenz 10y agoIf that's not an off-color remark, tell me an actual sex-related off-color remark.
- tinco 10y agoHow about: "Oh, I am surprised a girl won the raffle." That's off color (I.e. why put emphasis on the fact that they are underrepresented) but not offensive (I.e. there's no questioning the girls knowledge).
- daenz 10y agoNot trying to be pedantic here, but that's not off-color at all. There's nothing in poor taste about saying women are under-represented.
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- Ended 10y agoI'm sure Huang didn't consciously intend to be sexist, but unfortunately a culture of "off-color remarks" is what enables sexism. Senior, highly visible professionals should be particularly aware even of their off-hand remarks, as they have a disproportionate influence over the culture of their company and sector.
- voidr 10y ago> “I am literally sick to my stomach,” wrote group member Carolyn Farino. It was a stupid comment, how can a stupid comment like that induce sickness in another human being? Make a joke about typical male stereotypes, nobody bats an eye, make a bad joke involving females, the feminist lynch mob goes into action. Let's assume in a fashion show a women CEO would have made a similar stupid comment to a male, would we see such a male outrage? No.
- tehwebguy 10y agoOk cool so Huang can tell women what they know, and you can tell them how to feel.
- tutts 10y agoShe's claiming a physical reaction, not an emotional one. While we can't know if she's feeling nauseous, it's perfectly reasonable to doubt her conclusion that this is caused by Huang's statement.
- xorcist 10y ago> would we see such a male outrage? Pretty much the whole Internet consists of male outrage. That and cats.
- corecoder 10y ago> Make a joke about typical male stereotypes, nobody bats an eye I'm starting to think that maybe this is a problem. Maybe we should stop tolerating male stereotypes. Edit: typo.
- malcolmgreaves 10y agoCommentary starts at 62:20 here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fWbQyaEMfbh http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fWbQyaEMfbh
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- kagamine 10y agoI watched the video linked below, I honestly don't see how his remark is linked to gender at all. The lottery was going badly with many ticket holders not being in the room so they are calling out numbers with no response. Huang comments on how it is going right before he makes his remark. When the winner is on stage, and the 2nd female winner too, he shows interest and appears impressed by what they do. Where's the drama? I don't see it.
- csdigi 10y agoI agree, if anything I think the remark looks more like a joke targeted to her young age than her gender in the context of the video.
- dijit 10y agoI thought it was because she was moving slowly. "time limit" "hurry up" "are you sure you know what you won!, I'd be running" but I didn't attribute it to malice so I might be biased. :x
- skoczymroczny 10y agoNvidia CEO isn't a white heterosexual male so the typical approach might not work in this case.
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- erdevs 10y agoIs there any response from the women in the video herself? How did she interpret it? I watched the stream. Definitely not a sensitive remark and frankly the guy came off as a jackass across the board, from brushing off the research group's description of their work just before the raffle, to this insensitive-or-worse joke, to holding onto the second woman to win's hand for a creepy-long time. Cool that both raffle winners were women and it was nice to see quite a few women in the audience!
- mekaj 10y agoI haven't seen any statements from her, but you can see her body language following the remark (~42:53). Suddenly she stops walking, turns in his direction, her mouth opens wider, she stays frozen there for a brief moment, and then continues walking.
- thesehands 10y agowhat a daft remark, but let's not forget Hanlon's razor here.
- agounaris 10y agoAs always people being oversensitive about practically nothing. I think I will not open again articles mentioning such incidents.
- anc84 10y agoOh come on, if you watched the whole event there were TONS of low key, prejudice jokes at the expense of everyone. The "deep learning" community was insulted, the other speaker "can only count in binary", there was a Star Trek speech. There was so much banter, you could get horribly offended and sick to your stomach at least once per minute if you felt like it. If you see her getting called on stage, the very next line was about their age (the group of people she belonged to?), them having to do homework.
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