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So excited to see @MlleSophiePofie for the do over session at #EuroSTARConf

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Constantly worried about being *me* at work

You just don't talk about that at work Image
People talked about mental health at a tech conference

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Rikard Edgren at EuroSTAR: testing is about understanding and exploring relationships and connections; learning and re-learning rapidly; experimenting and discussing; reading and writing. Everything changes. This will go with my talk like peas and carrots. #EuroSTARconf
As an add-on to Rikard’s “potato model” metaphor, I’d add: in addition to seeing it as a three-dimensional potato, you can peel it, too.
Rikard suggests serendipity—successful stumbling, I’d say—can be accelerated and intensified by preparation. #EuroSTARconf
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1) I just had a conversation with Mitsuku, "a record breaking five-time winner of the Loebner Prize Turing Test, [...] the world's best conversational chatbot." Five times? How could this fool anyone ONCE? This is what happens when you don't try to *test* something.
2) By contrast, THIS is what happens when you actually try to *test* it.
3) Is AI a threat to testers? It's could eventually be a threat to testers who see their jobs as demonstrating that something works. It could be a threat to testers who are not prepared to look for problems, or to testers who don't consider what statistical analysis misses.
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I'll be live-tweeting Fiona Charles (@FionaCCharles)'s talk at #EuroSTARConf. Here's the thread.
@FionaCCharles Fiona fell head over heels in love with software starting in 1978. She is becoming increasingly concerned with the way that we're letting software loose on the world. She's going to share concerns about that.
@FionaCCharles Let's start with Amazon and its face recognition. It's particularly bad with the faces of women, black people, and especially black women The technology is being sold to police forces around the world... with up to 98% false positives.
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I'll be live tweeting the talk by Dr. Chris McKillop (@atscmc ) at #EuroSTARConf on this thread, starting in about 10 minutes.
@atscmc Here's the title — Developing Your BS Detector: The Hype and Reality of AI.
We encounter AI everywhere these days, in our phones, in our computers, at immigration. Sheriff McKillop is in town to sell the AI Snake Oil. Part 1: Confusion. With this be a robot-infested world? There are lots of fascinating, scary characters out there. Are they a threat?
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