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Remember that outside the valley AI bubble Gebru is primarily famous for having publicly whipped up a mob against Yann LeCun and chasing him off Twitter by cons
by thu2111 6y ago
Remember that outside the valley AI bubble Gebru is primarily famous for having publicly whipped up a mob against Yann LeCun and chasing him off Twitter by constantly claiming he was a racist sexist white man with no clue. Given that, it's maybe not a huge surprise that the tweets you're finding are more pro-Timnit than actually exists.
Another obvious problem: she keeps being described as a highly respected AI researcher, a leader of the field etc. Er, no. I read a lot of AI papers. I don't respect Gebru or the sub-field of AI ethnics much at all. What's happening here is simple: criticising a black woman in tech is impossible to do under your own name in corporate America, as radical leftists will immediately set out as a group to destroy you. The only acceptable position is to praise her and claim she's a genius. On HN and Reddit you can see what people really think and it's very far from that.
- TotallyHaram 6y agoI am not vested in AI research at all. But I am horrified by the possibility that 'data' and 'science' need to be ignored by AI so that false equality among the races could be realized. Timnit was refining this unethical approach IMO by using extortion against her own employer. Just the thought that someone who is basically an unethical emotional terrorist would be programming AI to ignore actual data and science in favor of their own race is chilling.