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AI is nearly exclusively designed by men – here’s how to fix it

AI is nearly exclusively designed by men – here’s how to fix it

Published by skeptic

From left to right: Rachel Coldicutt, David Leslie, Rumman Chowdhury, Noura Al Moubayed and Wendy Hall Royal Society/Debbie Rowe It’s day two of the Women and the future of science conference at the Royal Society in London, but I’m finding it increasingly hard to concentrate on the speakers because my AI transcription software – which is supposed to make my life easier – keeps insisting on mistyping someone’s name. For every mention of a Julie, it types out Julian. The irony isn’t lost on me: this is the session about artificial intelligence, and specifically about how women are being erased from the latest AI technologies. This is much bigger than the now-familiar idea that AI algorithms carry the biases of the datasets they are trained on, including gender bias. Instead, the focus of the conference session, chaired by computer scientist Wendy Hall, is seeking to address a more fundamental issue: the fact that new AI technologies, which will have a transformative effect on all of society, are being designed almost exclusively by men. Technology has …

‘It’s dedicated exclusively to female artists, from Frida Kahlo to Tracey Emin’: readers’ favourite unsung museums in Europe | Cultural trips

‘It’s dedicated exclusively to female artists, from Frida Kahlo to Tracey Emin’: readers’ favourite unsung museums in Europe | Cultural trips

Published by Sam Flores

The art of women in Cannes We visited the Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, in Mougins, a small village on a hill near Cannes. Full of exclusively female artists – from Berthe Morisot in the 19th century and Frida Kahlo in the early 20th to contemporary figures such as Tracey Emin – it houses an incredible collection of often overlooked art and artists. We visited on a rainy October day and it was remarkably quiet and calm. I particularly enjoyed the abstract works – well worth a trip up the hill.James Secret church in Amsterdam’s red light district Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder church, Amsterdam. Photograph: Frans Lemmens/Alamy Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder is a bit of a mouthful, but it is the best museum I have ever visited. Our Lord in the Attic is a hidden gem in the centre of Amsterdam and well worth a visit. “Our Lord” is a clandestine church originating after the Reformation when Catholics were no longer allowed to hold public holy masses. It enabled Catholics to worship, …

‘Exclusively for the elite’: why Mumbai’s new motorway is a symbol of the divide between rich and poor | Global development

‘Exclusively for the elite’: why Mumbai’s new motorway is a symbol of the divide between rich and poor | Global development

Published by Sam Flores

Mumbai is known for its graphic inequality, its gleaming high-rises where the rich live with panoramic views of the Arabian Sea standing next to windowless hovels perched over drains. It is home to 90 of India’s billionaires, but also to more than six million slum dwellers, about 55% of central Mumbai’s population. Now Mumbai has a new symbol of the gulf between rich and poor: a high-speed, eight-lane motorway on its western coast, which critics say serves only the wealthy despite being built with taxpayers’ money. The road was intended as a solution to the gridlocked roads of India’s commercial capital. But Mumbai is a densely populated peninsula, 25 miles (40km) long and 6 miles wide, where land is as scarce as snow. The new coastal road had to be built on land reclaimed from the Arabian Sea. An engineering marvel, it connects north and south, and is a dream for car owners, who used to average about 5mph through Mumbai’s congestion. The first phase of the Mumbai coastal road, which links the south and …

Supreme Court rules exclusively Christian RE in NI is ‘indoctrination’ – Humanists UK

Supreme Court rules exclusively Christian RE in NI is ‘indoctrination’ – Humanists UK

Published by Sam Flores

The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. This is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging implications for the teaching of RE in Northern Ireland and for collective worship across the United Kingdom. The case is known as JR87, and the original judgment in the High Court of Northern Ireland in 2022 was that ‘religious education and collective worship are not conveyed in an objective, critical, or pluralistic manner in Northern Ireland [schools].’ However, the Northern Ireland Department of Education appealed at the Court of Appeal last October. It ruled that while the RE curriculum was not objective, critical, or pluralistic, this was not sufficient to conclude there had been a breach of human rights law as this didn’t amount to indoctrination. The Court also ruled that the right to withdraw was not stigmatising. Northern Ireland Humanists intervened in the case. The father and child appealed …