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No. The easiest way to clear this up would be for Gebru to make a specific claim that was actually related to the model and include a pull request of her own mo
by jl2718 6y ago
No. The easiest way to clear this up would be for Gebru to make a specific claim that was actually related to the model and include a pull request of her own modifications that she had tested to deliver superior results.
This would be called “research”. That is what she was hired to do at Google. For everybody of every race ethnicity orientation able status and background that would be honored to give their best effort at the opportunity to do research at google, acceptance of resignation was the right thing.
- fullstackPM 6y agoOf course. Or at the very least, she herself could have trained the model on a "Senegal" dataset and make the findings public. My only point around her feud with LeCunn is that she threw a fit because people including LeCunn pointed out that it is not necessarily a race thing, and she wanted to give it a race spin without confirming that it was actually the case. And I am not at all commenting on all this drama around her resignation/being fired without getting a look at the contents of the two emails: the one she sent to Brain Women and the one with her demands. But I know this: if I were to issue an ultimatum to my employer, I am treading dangerous waters and should be able to digest the outcome of that, including being fired.