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Are there any publications or results that show what she accomplished as a research scientist at google? What is considered the leading edge of the field of in
by jl2718 6y ago
Are there any publications or results that show what she accomplished as a research scientist at google? What is considered the leading edge of the field of in AI ethics research? Had she accomplished something of great distinction in this field prior to google? Was her google street view result related to ethics? I would assume that ethics research would involve how an AI can learn to act ethically. Perhaps something about how an AI treats a sentient versus non-sentient impediment, like how it would decide whether to stop for ducklings or just run them over, whether it has the ability to learn a function for long-term social implications of its actions, specifically longer than the training stimulus, which is the remarkable function of the human prefrontal lobe, or only considers short-term task reward.
- manux 6y ago> Are there any publications or results that show what she accomplished as a research scientist at google? Yes. [1] > Had she accomplished something of great distinction in this field prior to google? Yes. [1] [1] https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=timnit+gebru&btnG=&oq=timnit+ https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=timni...
- visarga 6y agoShe had a highly cited paper in 2018 about "Gender Shades", second author. The paper is about dataset bias and the creation of a small size benchmark for bias detection.
- jl2718 6y agoOkay; I see. I misunderstood her field of research under the ‘AI Ethics’ umbrella. She’s clearly a leader in the field of algorithmic fairness and social accountability, and this was her work prior to Google, so it seems her criticisms/activism would not have been completely divergent from expectations. It can’t be known without details, but, does it not look like a case of google getting exactly what they hired for?