The Artificial Intelligence Channel
May 2nd, 2018
Daphne Koller is an Israeli-American Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient. She is also one of the founders of Coursera, an online education platform.
Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning. Bengio received his Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Science and PhD from McGill University.
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Daphne sounds like daffy and not taken seriously. Go by Prof. Koller if you can't take the misunderstanding. Appreciative of what she's done with Coursera but not with her being a snowflake.
that's some hard bullshit in 30 min, you will hear about, Sexual harastment, poor education in Nigeria. Human traficing, something about Bangladesh, disabled boy in USA
What a brilliant talk. Great upload!
"I have an amazing hammer and everything must be a nail", neat assessment of the problem.
Sure there are resources to build large scale datasets. The problem is that annotating biomedical datasets is not as easy as in other areas. I mean, everyone can annotate cars, pedestrians, easy objects. But in biomedical sciences, annotations require expert personnel that can really provide the correct annotation.
I liked the talk, but what was up with the whole sexism angle? Sure I get it that there is sexism, no doubt. But to conflate shy character with sexism is wrong. The scenario she brought up were she said some idea and it got overlooked and then someone else said the same thing has happened to me too, and I'm a guy. It does not have to do with sex, but your character. If you speak up you'll get heard. It also bothered me that she brought up the idea that women tend to do "bland but useful" problems. There is no evidence for that… That was a gross overgeneralization and is not helpful for the conversation at all.
We Bangladeshis don't have internet … and computers … I heard America needs debt too … like in the form of many trillion dollars … to spend on shopping and manicures 🙂 … Could you spend your important part of your life in other parts of the world where gov't has little funding and resources … You may well find fruitful ideas … Often time best ideas come from lack of resources … A few exchange program would help you get to that … We heard robots are killing jobs … We're worried!
Would've been better without the feminist rant.
She has my respect as a scientist. Not a soft spoken snowflake.
I came here to listen to her insights into ML. Too bad the talk turned into a sexism echo chamber. Nice work, male interviewer.
For the commentors whining about Dr. Koller's comments on treatment of women in science and business: 1) the interviewer asked, she answered; 2) Dr. Koller answered honestly from her experience and 3) take a big 'ol shut the heck up pill (please). For the commentors who are in reality machine learning bots commenting like humans and designed to sow discord…
Thinking outside … the “current” box. Love it!
I think it is positive that she openly stated the sexism issues when asked about it. It is the sad reality that we realize more and more and it should be different. Making people aware is the first step to achieve that. Of course this makes her open to all kinds of (sexist) attacks but that just supports the information that sexism is widespread and needs to be addressed.
She was hired probs cos a diversity quota and a guy that really deserved her position missed out.
So many triggered snowflakes at a women answering a question about her experience and the experience of other women the field in the obviously sexist world we live in…