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True but also... she wasn't a software engineer putting code in production nor a researcher working no the fundamentals of machine learning negotiating a raise.
by utopiah 3mo ago
True but also... she wasn't a software engineer putting code in production nor a researcher working no the fundamentals of machine learning negotiating a raise.
She was part of the "Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team" of what was then, and still is now, one of the corporations World wide spending the largest amount of resources precisely on using AI commercially.
- Aurornis 3mo agoI'm saying the paper itself wasn't a bombshell or even that noteworthy. The reason it got PR and continues to come up was because the authors manufactured this self-inflicted drama around it, not because it was leaking secret revelations that harmed the company.
- marshray 3mo agoNever underestimate the power of a catchy title that resonates with the intuitions and preconceptions of people who will never read the paper. Cf. https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-think...
- simianwords 3mo agoTimnit got popular because she was part of Woke 1.
- gordian-mind 3mo ago[flagged]