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by blueblisters 2029 days ago
> Furthermore, even if humans are constantly updating an expert system, the biases inherent in the composition of the company-hired set of experts will limit the representation of minority trends in the data.

Exactly this. Framing it in terms of alternate options makes AI the more reasonable choice.

Google AI appears to have drawn unnecessary attention to themselves for relatively benign paper. Most of the arguments in this paper have already been discussed elsewhere and could be refuted in simple terms.

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That really depends on the context you think about this paper in. If you see it as Critical race theory activism (which I do) then it's not benign at all on the contrary it's deeply damaging that Google have well paid people who think they should push their own political agendas through an organization that underlines almost everyone in the wests daily lives.