After firing Timnit Gebru, Google is now investigating one other researcher in its moral AI division

Google has suspended ethics researcher Margaret Mitchell's corporate account after she reportedly shared inside of data with other folks external the company.
Google has suspended ethics researcher Margaret Mitchell's corporate account after she reportedly shared internal files with people outside the company.

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  1. "Googles working on a service that would provide ethics consulting for companies building AI solutions. According to a report from Wired, the company is considering launching thisethics consultancy service by the end of the year". (August 28, 2020)
  2. "Google is gearing up to trial a secret 6GHz network in numerous states across the US, according to a series of FCC filings". (August 18, 2020)
  3. "The Alphabet Workers Union said the actions against Margaret Mitchell and Timnit Gebru "call into question Googles commitment to ethics". (January 21, 2021)
  4. "A trio of researchers from the Google Brain team recently unveiled the next big thing in AI language models: a massive one trillion-parameter transformer system. The next biggest model out there, as far as were aware, is OpenAIs GPT-3, which uses a measly 175 billion parameters". (January 13, 2021)
  5. "Googles various products, such as Search and Assistant, are already available in India in multiple local languages. The company is now turning to a new AI to potentially make more of its offerings accessibleto Indic language speakers more specifically, its using a technology called MuRIL". (December 17, 2020)
  6. "Google blamed its automated systems for obfuscating a banned political slogan and a call for Xi Jinping's death on the Street View map of Hong Kong". (September 8, 2020)
  7. "Google Arts & Culture's latest machine learning experiment explores the artist's synesthesia and the connections between music and painting". (February 11, 2021)
  8. "Weve seen some cool AI-based musical experiments from Googles team recently, including a virtual piano and a voice-to-music converter.The companys latest experiment is a bit different: an infinite version of Billie Eilishs hit song, Bad Guy. Dont worry. Its not just one song being repeated again and again". (December 2, 2020)
  9. "The ad targeting method clusters users into groups rather than tracking individuals like cookies". (January 26, 2021)
  10. "Two Google engineers have quit over the firing of AI researcher Timnit Gebru, whose exit sparked an internal backlash about ethics and diversity". (February 5, 2021)
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