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https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-ai-ethics-research-paper-forced-out-timnit-gebru/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294
by unhammer 6y ago
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-ai-ethics-research-paper-forced-out-timnit-gebru/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-a... is a summary of the paper that started it, full of actionable points – and co-authored with Emily Bender, no less!
Also, if you're into the LessWrong mindset and are susceptible to think that that which can be destroyed by the truth should be, you might find this tidbit interesting:
> Buried in the recent trillion parameter language model paper is how the dataset to train it was created. Any page that contained one of these words was excluded: https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and-Otherwise-Bad-Words/blob/master/en https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and... Two sample banned words: "twink" and "sex"
https://twitter.com/willie_agnew/status/1350551463718621184 https://twitter.com/willie_agnew/status/1350551463718621184
- ALittleLight 6y agoCould you elaborate on this a little more? I'm not sure I'm connecting all the dots.
- dgellow 6y agoI read your links and I have to say that I do not understand how the list of excluded words relates to the rest. And what’s the issue here.