I abruptly lost my job 9 days ago. Tomorrow I lose my healthcare. This is the "view from the top" for a successful female AI research scientist who has built her career for over 15 years.
MMitchell
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MMitchell
@mmitchell_ai
Interdisciplinary researcher focused on shaping AI towards long-term positive goals. ML & Ethics.
Similar content in the Skies (this bird has flown).
Joined June 2016
- I'm fired.
- Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. This didn't happen because she herself fought for it -- although she did fight hard the whole way to even get to that point. 👩🔬 What happened was that the award was offered to her husband, Pierre. (1/n) 🧵Congratulations to our 2024 medicine laureate Victor Ambros ✨ This morning he celebrated the news of his prize with his colleague and wife Rosalind Lee, who was also the first author on the 1993 'Cell' paper cited by the Nobel Committee. #NobelPrize
- At Google, female research scientist women were blocked when they tried to hire other female research scientist women. The reason given, on multiple occasions, was that we were trying to hire "our friends". Shall we unpack this with respect to how sexist discrimination works?
- I replicated this (my screenshot below). Really great example of gender bias, for those of you who need a canonical example to make the point.
- Reflecting on Claudine Gay, I'm reminded that a fundamental of racism--that we should all be aware of--is the disparate application of rules: People from one race* are disproportionately punished for "breaking a rule" that ppl from another are virtually never punished for.🧵
- Either Nvidia has *no* Spanish speakers, or there's a Spanish speaker in a position of a lot of power having a chuckle...Introducing NVIDIA cuLitho, a new software library that brings accelerated computing to computational #lithography, delivering a 40X performance leap while running on #GPUs. #GTC23
- Meanwhile, over in Google Search. Andrew Johnson has been killin it, I never knew.
![Screenshot of Google search with new AI overview feature.
[ Google Q_ which us president went t..] Thirteen US presidents have attended UW-
Madison, earning 59 degrees in total. Some of these presidents include: e Andrew Jackson: Graduated in 2005 e William Harrison: Graduated in 1953 and 1974 e JohnTyler: Graduated in 1958 and 1969 e Andrew Johnson: Earned 14 degrees, including classes of 1947, 1965, 1985, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, and 2012 e James Buchanan: Graduated in 1943, 2004, and 2013 e Harry Truman: Graduated in 1933 e John Kennedy: Graduated in 1930, 1948, 1962, 1971, 1992, and 1993 e Gerald Ford: Graduated in 1975 ( ~](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOMfVrCaAAEZ5tW.jpg)
- Replying to @mmitchell_aiPierre refused to accept unless it were also extended to Marie -- his wife, but also his coworker and fellow scientist. Together, they made fundamental advances. And so Marie Curie became the first female to break the Nobel Prize barrier... (2/n)
- I am concerned about @timnitGebru 's firing from Google and its relationship to sexism and discrimination. I wanted to share the email I wrote to Google press the day my access was cut off.
- Replying to @mmitchell_aiIt seems that women alone can only do so much. Especially if they're <10% of a scientific field. Things will really start to change when men are actively looking out for women, fighting hard for gender equality even more so than their female peers. (4/n)
- Personal news! I'm joining Hugging Face 🤗. It's a community creating transparent AI models that are now powering both private and public AI, so exactly where I should be to move AI forward from its very foundations. =) Thanks to @dinabass for covering!
- Okay, @60Minutes is saying that Google's Bard model "spoke in a foreign language it was never trained to know." I looked into what this can mean, and it appears to be a lie. Here's the evidence, curious what others found. 🧵This headline. 🙄
- In order to understand why ChatGPT can't replace Google Search, it's useful to understand the early days of web search and the role that PageRank played. 1/n
