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Microsoft’s Lovable Teen Chatbot Turned Racist Troll Proves How Badly Silicon Valley Needs Diversity
In less than 24 hours, Microsoft’s artificial intelligence project modeled after an American teenage girl went from making awkward conversation in broken syntax to spewing hateful, fully formed tweets laden with racial slurs. But as startling as the offensive tweets were, the incident shows how...
31
Mar
Dogpatch Labs celebrates diversity in tech
In the modern workplace, ensuring a diverse and representative environment is of the utmost importance for forward thinking organisations.
30
Mar
Andreessens give $275,000, seek to aid military veterans in tech
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and his wife, philanthropist and educator Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, are giving $275,000 to four non-profits working on the front lines for the nation's military veterans, with the aim of getting more service men and women into tech jobs.
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Director of Google.org on challenges of unconscious bias
This year at SxSW, I kicked things off by attending a great talk with the director of Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller. She had a conversation with Hugh Forrest, and started by letting us know that to her Austin feels like a "Googley" city where everyone is very friendly.
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Diversity’s more than gender
Despite the IT industry's push for greater diversity and inclusion, there's still a long way to go. Though there's been a major effort, industry-wide, to increase the numbers of women working in the industry, there's still a dearth of black, Latino/Hispanic and native American tech talent. In 2014, USA Today reported that black and Hispanic tech talent made up 4.5 percent of computer engineering and computer science graduates, based on data from the Computing Research Association's most recent Taulbee survey from 2013-2014, which measures graduation rates, degrees awarded and salary based on data from 170 US and Canadian universities for the previous year. The 2014-2015 Taulbee survey results will be available in May; I'll be eagerly awaiting the results in hopes it'll show even greater gains.
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