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She will land on her feet. There is a huge demand for ideologues willing to lobotomize ML. “Let’s generate fake data with GANs to prevent our AI from discoveri
by KentLane 6y ago
She will land on her feet. There is a huge demand for ideologues willing to lobotomize ML.
“Let’s generate fake data with GANs to prevent our AI from discovering politically uncomfortable regularities!”
It’s ugly work but someone has to do it, right?
- whymauri 6y agoThis is a rude dismissal of an entire field within machine learning and statistics (ethics, bias, and robustness).
- thu2111 6y agoRude, maybe but not very. Dismissal, yes. The belief that AI should learn reality as it exists and not some ideologically purified version of it is a completely rational one, and dismissing the "work" of those so-called "ethicists" is no more problematic than dismissing the "work" of the Chinese censors who purify the Chinese internet. Indeed being dismissive of that work is to be praised, as it shouldn't exist at all.
- kthxbye123 6y agoName the specific true facts about reality you think these models are capturing that are at risk of being 'purified' by AI ethicists. List them.
- thu2111 6y agoWell, read any AI bias paper. Facts about reality these models capture and which are considered problematic include stuff like "doctors are more often men and nurses are more often women" or "most people on the internet are white" or "most stuff on the internet is written in English". Basically the internet is mostly built by westerners and any facet of that gets classed as "bias" rather than being what it is: the truth. Even trivial facts like in English "men chuckle, women giggle" has been used as examples of bias. That's not bias though, that's just how the English language works. For example: https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/04/a-scalable-approach-to-reducing-gender.html https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/04/a-scalable-approach-to-red...
- IfOnlyYouKnew 6y agoThe only ugly thing I see is your comment. Edit: I've now read the rest of the thread and the above is no longer true.
- ur-whale 6y ago>She will land on her feet. Indeed. I'd even go one step further and bet that her whole career plan is ML activism. If you scan the email, all the key words are in there. Textbook agitprop. I feel sorry for the next company that will hire her.
- kthxbye123 6y agoWhat politically uncomfortable regularities are those? Please name the specific uncomfortable true facts about reality that you think these models are capturing.