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That Zoom Call with the Lawyer-Cat, Explained(youtube.com)
1 points by contemporary343 6y ago|0 comments
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Quantum Computing Ethics and Hype(scottaaronson.com)
4 points by contemporary343 6y ago|0 comments
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by contemporary343 6y ago
Another key quote that explains the fundamental misalignment of incentives at the employee level - you're rewarded for increasing engagment metrics. So why do something that might decrease it? "But anything that reduced engagement
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by contemporary343 6y ago
"In 2017, Chris Cox, Facebook’s longtime chief product officer, formed a new task force to understand whether maximizing user engagement on Facebook was contributing to political polarization. It found that there was indeed a correlati
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by contemporary343 6y ago
They also seem to have sidelined Samy Bengio (Yoshua's brother) who was the skip-level manager of the team and, as far as I can tell, backed both of them and continued to: https://twitter.com/L_badikho/status/
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by contemporary343 6y ago
The Honeywell one does... probably has some benefit, but doesn't solve the issue.
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by contemporary343 6y ago
This is all so hilariously corrupt. I'm not sure I can even muster anger for this, just laughter. (I'll reserve the anger for the pandemic and this administration's callous, frankly criminal handling of it). (So Levandowski a
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by contemporary343 6y ago
I think the context is key here. Independent of what happened on Wednesday they don’t constitute a real threat. But one has to update one’s prior.
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by contemporary343 6y ago
It is worth pointing out that Twitter had concrete near-term reasoning around incitement of further attacks on the capitol that they included in their reasoning - incitement is generally not protected speech (even though of course Twitter i
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How the union busting consulting firm Google hired compiles employee dossiers(vice.com)
68 points by contemporary343 6y ago|11 comments
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by contemporary343 6y ago
https://www.wired.com/story/behind-paper-led-google-research... The odd thing is the paper itself is rather innocuous. Fairly standard stuff really. It seems clear to me that it was a pretext to force her out. Many oth
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Behind the Paper That Led to a Google Researcher's Firing(wired.com)
6 points by contemporary343 6y ago|0 comments
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by contemporary343 6y ago
She's the one asking for an option to revise and discuss it. Management is the one demanding an unconditional retraction, with no recourse.
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by contemporary343 6y ago
Similar experience to another current Google Brain researcher: https://twitter.com/le_roux_nicolas/status/13346019609729064... Submitting conference papers last minute is... normal.
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by contemporary343 6y ago
Ditto in my past experience at Microsoft Research. Never an actual review of paper's merits, just IP and maintaining trade secrets if applicable.
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by contemporary343 6y ago
Ah yes, Google, where behavior befitting a manager such as sexual harassment (which is found to be credible by internal investigation) gets you $90 Million exit packages (Andy Rubin), or silence (Amit Singhal).
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by contemporary343 6y ago
Yep, I've noticed this too.
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by contemporary343 6y ago
I'm not sure where you get 'we should spend less money on ML' from the abstract. If anything it suggests investing more in ML, from data curation to architecture development, that would be perfectly within Google's gener
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by contemporary343 6y ago
As one example, Dean references her work here: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46999443
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by contemporary343 6y ago
There's still time for discussion! The paper's only in review and they would have had to make revisions anyway. I'd say it's the management that made an ultimatum to the research team.
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by contemporary343 6y ago
Google (and Google Brain in particular) benefited immensely from Gebru's work, and her being affiliated with them. This can be seen in how often they (including Jeff Dean) pointed to her work to show they were taking questions of fairn
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by contemporary343 6y ago
One of the lead authors posted some photos of the setup on twitter: https://twitter.com/chaoyanglu/status/1334684227342725120 Quite incredible! And for anyone who's worked in optics or photonics, a real exper
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by contemporary343 6y ago
It looks like the paper was critical of large language models: https://www.fastcompany.com/90582375/timnit-gebru-google-fir... The original article has been updated with Jeff Dean's response, while a member of Geb
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by contemporary343 6y ago
It's an original research paper (not review) and it was published in 2018. So yes, 1000 citations at the very least conveys that it was noticed and had an impact. Also, anyone who works in the field of AI fairness and ethics research k
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by contemporary343 6y ago
I generally agree with your comment - industrial research is not academia. But (relative) freedom to publish is a very important consideration when attracting top-flight researchers. Especially in ML! I mean, even Apple's ML team publi
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by contemporary343 6y ago
Agreed: Even if one is cynical (as I am) about the reason these companies hire AI policy and ethics researchers (for PR and to deflect criticisms on how their products operate, far too often) - it is clear that many potential consumers and
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by contemporary343 6y ago
Uh, what? She's a researcher and this is a Google research division. A 1000 citations is a large number for any single paper, even in ML. And yes, even inside Google research, this aspect of impact plays a big role in evaluation of res
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by contemporary343 6y ago
Her research work is well-known and has had an impact, whether you like it or not: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Timnit+gebru Edit: And to be clear, her most cited paper (> 1000 citations) had an impact on what so
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by contemporary343 6y ago
Uh what? https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Timnit+gebru The first paper listed there has over 1000 citations in 2 years. That’s influence and impact. Just because you don’t know of her work doesn’t mean that her work has
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by contemporary343 6y ago
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=timnit+gebru

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