@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social)

@timnitGebru

Author: Deep Unlearning (preorder at shorturl.at/sCdjl) Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (dair-institute.org)

simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-Unl…

Joined August 2011

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@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social)
@timnitGebru
Aug 13
📢📢📢My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders at simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-Unl… I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣
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@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social)
@timnitGebru
4h
Its only Black women who notice isn't it? Its interesting to see the number of white "leftists" saying how the "arrogance" I displayed in not wanting to engage is emblematic of the "toxic" discourse of 2010s on the left & how it held "us" back. Some of us were too upitty.
bint al-shamsa
@bintalshamsa
Sep 4
Bicycles have proven to be quite ineffective at producing nuclear power. It’s amusing to see how difficult it has been for many people to grasp why they are not entertained when they make demands to strangers.
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@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social)
@timnitGebru
7h
Some of us have elders we listen to. And those elders said things like “Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is..."
Jon Stokes
@jon_stokes
11h
Groups who win big policy fights have one thing in common: They never get tired of explaining their ideas yet again from 1st principles to an interested audience. Gebru’s approach — flex credentials, “I’m so tired”, “do the reading” — will lose every time.
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@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social)
@timnitGebru
12h
Book excerpt is from 63 years ago but it might as well be describing exactly what is happening today. Same movie on repeat.
@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social)
@timnitGebru
12h
Replying to @Spiralizing
Very close. From a book written in 1963: “The Modeling of Mind: Computers and Intelligence”. With thanks to Matt Grasser on Linkedin who pointed me to this one. I have pages and pages of these going back to the 1940s and tracking the lingo during the hype cycles.
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@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social)
@timnitGebru
12h
Guess what year this was from "Humanity may soon have to face the choice between becoming...servants within a society of mechanical brains, or of becoming extinct save...for a few specimens...preserved in a museum to be studied by scholarly robots interested in natural history"
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