To all of those who are "both-sides-ing" this: we see you. It takes courage, guts, and fortitude to speak out in the face of oppression, knowing that no matter how gently you make the point people will think you're "too angry".
I'm glad that #UWAllen publicly disavowed Domingos's meltdown. It's disheartening to see so many folks reacting to that with: well what about @AnimaAnandkumar?
Just how angry is the right amount of angry, when faced with racism, misogyny, misogynoir, gaslighting, etc? Furious is the right amount.
Furthermore, pointing out someone else's racism, misogyny, misogynoir, gaslighting is not a personal attack against them when it's TRUE. And there are plenty of receipts here.
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First, some guesses about system components, based on current tech: it will include a very large language model (akin to GPT-3) trained on huge amounts of web text, including Reddit and the like.
It will also likely be trained on sample input/output pairs, where they asked crowdworkers to create the bulleted summaries for news articles.
"Aside from turning the paper viral, the incident offered a shocking indication of how little Google can tolerate even mild pushback, and how easily it can shed all pretense of scientific independence." Thank you, @mathbabedotorg
@mathbabedotorg Re: "Embarrassing as this episode should be for Google — the company’s CEO has apologized — I’m hoping policy makers grasp the larger lesson."
Totally agree on the main pts (about policy makers and about it being embarrassing). It doesn't seem to me that he actually apologized.
I’ve picked up a bunch of new followers in the past few days, and I suspect many of you are here because you’re interested in what I might have to say about Google and Dr. @TimnitGebru. So, here’s what I have to say:
Dr. @TimnitGebru is a truly inspiring scholar and leader. Working with her these past few months has been an absolute highlight for me:
I was feeling a little ranty this morning, but there's actually also some interesting points about context and pragmatics here, for when we write (or cause machines to write) text that will be interpreted in contexts we aren't directly participating in:
Surely, from the platform's point of view, WeCNLP is starting at 7am. For them, WeCNLP refers to an event with "start" and "end" times they have to program into their platform, so that people who have registered can access the platform during those times. >>
But for people *attending* WeCNLP (the addressees of that email), WeCNLP refers to an event with a specific internal schedule, of talks and informal meeting times. >>
Is anyone else on the West Coast already up and surprised to see an email from #WeCNLP2020 saying the event starts in "59 minutes" when the schedule says 8am start?
Seems like an auto-generated system from the online platform because the site is opening at 7, though the program doesn't start until 8.
Given that this one is WEST COAST NLP and for once is actually in our timezone, it would be nice to not be harassed by emails making us feel late...
The authors look deep into a use case for text that is ungrounded in either the world or any commitment what's being communicated but nonetheless fluent, apparently coherent, and of a specified style. You know, exactly #GPT3's specialty.
2/n
What's that use case? The kind of text needed, and apparently needed in quantity, for discussion boards whose purpose is recruitment and entrenchment in extremist ideologies.
3/n