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[NetEase smart news January 14 news] In today, there is one thing we can be sure: just one year will not change the computer science field to solve the problem of gender discrimination for decades or related All questions. According to a variety of recent reports, women still account for only 20% of the total number of engineers in large technology companies such as Google and Facebook, and the proportion in Uber is even lower. However, for example, a sexual harassment person in a Silicon Valley company, and a Google engineer sent out to colleagues a memo that claims that women are not very good at biology, such as program compilation, etc. After the incident, we actually have reason to believe that things need to be changed in 2018, especially when it comes to artificial intelligence.
At first glance, artificial intelligence seems to be the most unlikely programmatic area for women. Hanna Wallach, a researcher at AI and co-founder of "A Symposium on the Role of Women in Machine Learning," said that in machine learning, only 13.5% of female engineers are women. In the #MeToo campaign, artificial intelligence researchers also conducted and investigated allegations of sexual harassment and received complaints about inappropriate gender-based jokes around gender at a major industry conference NIPS.
However, there have recently emerged three new artificial intelligence policies and advocacy groups, with a large number of industrial support and lofty goals for changing the design and implementation of artificial intelligence, and all of them are aimed at protecting women’s rights.
The artificial intelligence organization is composed of technology giants such as Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. They hired Terah Lyons as executive director. Lyons was once a policy advisor to the US Chief Technology Officer at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), where she is one of the leaders of the Obama administration to conduct in-depth research on artificial intelligence to change the world’s potential.
The main goal of the artificial intelligence organization is to “enhance the public’s understanding of artificial intelligence technology (AI) and develop best practice plans for challenges and opportunities in this areaâ€. Funded by some of the world's largest technology companies, it helps to formulate policies at the federal level and think about the future of artificial intelligence.
At the same time, AI Now, a research institute of New York University, was officially announced this fall by Kate Crawford, chief researcher of Microsoft Research, and Meredith Whittaker, founder of Google Open Research. Established. One of the team’s main tasks is to ensure that engineers who make artificial intelligence algorithms work closely with those who are using artificial intelligence. For example, in the case of applying for medical needs, they want to ensure that doctors are part of their research. This kind of work will help guide artificial intelligence to solve practical problems in life, not just problems that computer programmers think they need to solve.
To help increase the number of women receiving artificial intelligence training, we have a non-profit organization, AI4ALL, which is a summer program at Princeton University where professors assign different tasks to different groups of high school students. The organization was created by computer vision expert Olga Russakovsky in 2016 (see in detail “35 innovators under 35†article) and related individuals. In addition, AI4ALL won the funding of Melinda Gates this year and will expand to four universities in 2018. Its main purpose is to help women, and minority and low-income students learn more about artificial intelligence.
When talking about the MIT Technology Review, Russakovsky pointed out that AI4ALL does not rely on women to operate primarily, and its board of directors is 50% male.
She said: "In the industry, our organization is 'different.'"
For Russakovsky, she cares about whether the 2018 women’s treatment in the field of artificial intelligence will be better. After all, non-profit organizations are one thing, but more power is still concentrated in the hands of some white men living in the San Francisco area.
But she saw hope in this summer at AI4ALL. "I don't know if 2018 will be completely improved, but this change has already begun," said Russakovsky. "I believe that these changes will happen after the next wave of students we train."
(From: aece compilation: NetEase smart participation: Fu Zeng)
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