{"id":375649,"date":"2021-12-02T23:18:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/can-timnit-gebrus-new-lab-challenge-big-techs-control-over-ai-research\/"},"modified":"2021-12-02T23:18:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:18:21","slug":"can-timnit-gebrus-new-lab-challenge-big-techs-control-over-ai-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/can-timnit-gebrus-new-lab-challenge-big-techs-control-over-ai-research\/","title":{"rendered":"#Can Timnit Gebru\u2019s new lab challenge big tech\u2019s control over AI research?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Can Timnit Gebru\u2019s new lab challenge big tech\u2019s control over AI research?<\/strong>”
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A year to the day after she was fired from Google, Timnit Gebru has unveiled plans to wrench AI research out of big tech\u2019s grasp.<\/p>\n

Gebru, a former co-lead of Google\u2019s Ethical AI team, on Thursday launched an independent lab: the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Armed with an initial budget of $3.7 million raised from foundations, DAIR will focus on long-term and community-based research \u2014 which can be hard to do in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe incentive structures in industry and elite academic institutions that are so intertwined with these tech companies don\u2019t \u2014 in my view \u2014 allow for the kind of work I want to do,\u201d Gebru said at a summit organized by Women in AI Ethics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The initiative encourages research that analyzes end goals and potential risks from the start. In addition to critiquing existing technology<\/a>, Gebru wants DAIR to provide a positive model for doing AI research.<\/p>\n

This ambition is reflected in the first word of the lab\u2019s acronym: distributed. Gebru said nobody will have to leave their community to work at DAIR:<\/p>\n

Technology affects the whole world, but the whole world is not getting a chance to affect technology right now. If you want community-rooted research and you need to displace people from their communities, and they have to all go to Silicon Valley\u2026 That\u2019s not the kind of thing I want to contribute to.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

At DAIR, staff will conduct research that affects their communities. Gebru gives the example of researchers in South Africa using satellite imagery and computer vision to analyze \u201cspatial apartheid,<\/a>\u201d the geographical segregation that persists to this day.<\/p>\n

Free from the shackles of big tech, researchers at DAIR could pursue projects that they feel are important \u2014 and communicate the results as they see fit.<\/p>\n

Gebru has first-hand experience of how tech firms can influence these decisions. Her firing was sparked by a dispute over a research paper on the risks of large-language models, which are used in many of Google products.<\/p>\n

DAIR might not get the funding that her previous employer could offer, but, in some respects, that could be to the institute\u2019s benefit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“#Can Timnit Gebru\u2019s new lab challenge big tech\u2019s control over AI research?” A year to the day after she was fired from Google, Timnit Gebru has unveiled plans to wrench AI research out of big tech\u2019s grasp. Gebru, a former co-lead of Google\u2019s Ethical AI team, on Thursday launched an independent lab: the Distributed AI…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":375650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/neural?filter_last=1&fit=1280,640&url=https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/12\/Untitled-design-3-1.jpg&signature=196efe9508285abc0c8bab5b6653929b","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}