Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face ..
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Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Margaret Mitchell is a computer scientist who works on algorithmic bias and fairness in machine learning. She is most well known for her work on automatically removing undesired biases concerning demographic groups from machine learning models, as well as more transparent reporting of their intended use. .. more
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retroeval.github.io
A lot of people I like are gone from WaPo, but good call there may be others who are awesome.
Reposted by Timnit Gebru, Joanna Bryson, Shannon Vallor , and 16 more Timnit Gebru, Joanna Bryson, Shannon Vallor, Jan W. Mueller, Margaret Mitchell, Will Jennings, Steve Peers, David H. Kaye, Johan P. Olsen, Rebecca Tushnet, Adrian Daub, Victor Pickard, Mark Rice, Greg Linden, Jack Stilgoe, Christina Pagel, Nicolai von Ondarza, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Annalee Newitz
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The site isn’t a novel breakthrough; it’s simply a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies for the hype machine’s true believers.
My latest for @wired.com:
www.wired.com/story/i-infi...
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Post from @eryk.bsky.social on a paper I hadn't the stomach to deconstruct. <3
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But "it doesn't work and is fake" is just wrong now.
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I was sent this video of agents at her door:
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I’ll be down by the river, fishing the references I know exist **somewhere** even if I didn’t catch them earlier.
That’s not to say it’s not cool/helpful/interesting/etc.
My latest for @vox.com:
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Really helpful piece from @sigalsamuel.bsky.social
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My latest for @vox.com:
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."
We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material.
In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights.
link.europa.eu/Fh8h84
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“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated”
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My sense is that putting on militia outfits + being told that peers are bad, go get 'em, strongly affects perception + action...but am less familiar with supporting academic studies.