A good fairness question: https://t.co/fUcQKKkgb5 Should we include population base rates when making inferences for decisions about people? Doing so is "correct" for inference and increases our predictive accuracy whenever base rates differ conditional on other features x. But..
A Black professor had his house appraised.
The value: $472,000.
Then he removed indications of Blackness from his home, including family photos.
He had a white colleague — another Johns Hopkins professor — stand in.
The second appraisal: $750,000.
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In 2020 (my first semester at iFood), my team, together with the AI team at Prosus Group, built a language model (AI) that currently supports several important iFood's artificial intelligence solutions. https://t.co/lHerzNFujz
Who could have predicted that Twitter accounts ending in several random numbers which have been pumping out anti vaccine disinformation for 2 years would suddenly pivot to pro Russian messaging.
Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'. —Carl Sagan
(7.9 billion people live on this dot - view of Earth from rings of Saturn)