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ML with Social Purpose. @shakir@mas.to | Research Scientist @DeepMind | Strengthening African ML @DeepIndaba. He/Him. South African πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸŒ
Dec 8, 2020 β€’ 7 tweets β€’ 4 min read
Now at #MuslimsInML workshop πŸŒ™. @abidlabs on how GPT3 has signifant anti-muslim bias, particularly in reference to violence. 1/n And the bias on display about @MarzyehGhassemi. Needed to completely distract with pizza to get the model to generate text unrelated to violence and bias. 2/n
Jul 9, 2020 β€’ 8 tweets β€’ 4 min read
Excited to share a new paper on Decolonisation and AI. With the amazing @png_marie @wsisaac 🀩 we explore why Decolonial theory matters for our field, and tactics to decolonise and reshape our field into a Decolonial AI. Feedback please πŸ™πŸΎ Thread πŸ‘‡πŸΎ
arxiv.org/abs/2007.04068 We see AI and ML having 2 sides: when seen as an Object our field is about technical methods and applications; as a Subject it is about systems, incentives and institutions. In both views, AI has been brought into question, especially on harms to vulnerable people. 🐾