@ylecun "Turing award winner" & @timnitGebru, groundbreaking researcher of #AI #bias, #facialrecognition, faced off on how a #machinelearning system could make pics like Obama's pixelated face into a white person. @ruchowdh @mutalenkonde @kharijohnson @mer__edith @miaD 1/
Yann states it's the data. Seems reasonable. Oversimplified. But @timnitgebru pts out there's more going on behind the scenes to get us to this point - more systemic issues beyond just the data that need to be acknowledged. @mutalenkonde @kharijohnson @sethcolaner @mer__edith 2/
Give it deeper thought. Question deeper how we got here... to a publicly available way to take pixelated faces and make them whole based on data that is majority white faces. @timnitgebru @mutalenkonde @kharijohnson @ruchowdh @mer__edith 3/
It points to larger systemic bias issues. Did the researchers behind the #ML system NOT think about how their project might be used? Did they think how it might impact the people that their tech might be used on? @timnitgebru @mutalenkonde @kharijohnson @mer__edith 4/
Did they have any “marginalized people” (as Timnit calls herself in her Tweet) consult with them on their project? Did they look at the data they used in their data set? @timnitgebru @mutalenkonde @kharijohnson @sethcolaner @mer__edith 5/
I don’t mean did they verify that it loaded correctly. I mean did they consider the fact that the data they were using to train a system was using mostly white faces AGAIN! A known problem. Why then does this keep happening? @timnitgebru @mutalenkonde @kharijohnson @mer__edith 6/
@timnitgebru is right, its' systemic. And we see the results that happen to the people its directed at this week in this NYT article: nytimes.com/2020/06/24/tec…
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What's worse is when the #MachineLearning community marginalizes the very voices who can speak up for the marginalized. @timnitgebru @mutalenkonde @kharijohnson @sethcolaner @mer__edith 8/
People who can help not listening is frustrating. So "tone" or no "tone", we need to welcome divergent voices for they will save us all from an #AI world that can only recognize two colors - green ($) & white. @timnitgebru @mutalenkonde @kharijohnson @ruchowdh @mer__edith 9/
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