#BreaktheBias in AI & Analytics

While the world celebrates women’s day in different ways – both big and small – in the AI and analytics space, the need for collective voices on equality, the gender pay gap, and gender biases have become more important than ever.?

Enough has been said about how women and girls in science and technology are adding value and how it?accelerates progress towards scientific advancements . But there are much bigger things at stake in the?AI and analytics landscape . Ever wondered why most voice assistants –?Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant? – all have female voices??That’s gender bias and?stereotypes embedded in AI? right there, notes UNESCO.??

There’s more.?

• Women are given smaller research grants than their male counterparts, and while they represent?33.3 percent of all researchers , and only 12 percent of national science academies are women.?
• Only one in five professionals is a woman in the AI field – i.e. about 22 percent.?
• Female researchers tend to have less well-paid careers. They are underrepresented in high-profile journals and are often passed over for promotion.?

Check out the gender pay scale gap in data science domain below:

Meet?Gender Pay Gap Bot? . Earlier this week, one of the fact-checker accounts, called?@PayGapApp? , has been calling out names of companies on Twitter and revealing the percentage gap of how much women are getting paid as compared to men.?

#TheRising2022

In a bid to bring together some of India’s smartest and brightest women in AI and data science, Analytics India Magazine recently announced the launch of the fourth edition of the coveted ‘The Rising’ event (powered by Fractal), held in person on April 8 in Bengaluru, Karnataka. You can register for the event?here? .?

Check out the best Indian conferences for women in tech in 2022?here? .?

Here’s why you should attend The Rising 2022.

Check out top data engineering conferences in 2022?here? .?

Women in Tech?

Tuslee Doshi?

Read Google head of product – responsible AI and ML fairness Tulsee Doshi’s interview on responsible AI and ML fairness?here? . In this exclusive interview, Doshi talks about the concerns surrounding AI and ML fairness and breaks the myths that often come with?controversial issues.

My Journey in Data Science: Asha Vishwanathan, Verloop

Asha Vishwanathan leads the machine learning division at Verloop, a Conversational AI platform. Her expertise lies in NLP and computer vision, and her career spans over 14 years. She got introduced to data science in 2014 and made a pivot from analytics. Read her complete journey in data science?here? .

AIM Videos?

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Startups, Apps & Tools:

Nagarro

Nagarro? is a leading global software development industry with its technology and software consulting services with over 15,000 employees in over 27 countries. The company is at the forefront of the AI disruption with its AI accelerators, data-driven business insights, big data, chatbots and more.?

Goopt

Goopt is an interesting search engine tool for a ‘procedural simulation’ of the web with GPT-3. This new web will use procedural content generation to create different content, completely synthetic.?

Article in Focus:?

Apple launches world’s most powerful chip, M1 Ultra

At the Peak Performance Event, 2022, Apple announced the new M1 Ultra chip. Built on M1 Max’s transformational architecture, M1 Ultra is claimed to be the world’s most powerful chip for personal computers. Check out more details on Apple’s M1 Ultra chip?here? .?

Watch the key highlight of Apple’s Peak Performance Event below:?

Bengio & LeCun Debate on How to Crack Human-level AI

Lex Fridman had an interesting discussion recently with Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio at Meta’s?Inside the Lab? event. The trio discussed the latest advancements in AI and machine learning and possible paths to human-level intelligence. Read the complete story?here? .

Research & Papers?

projUNN: Efficient Method for Training Deep Networks with Unitary Matrices

Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, alongside scientists from MIT and NYU, recently introduced two variants named Direct (projUNN-D) and Tangent (projUNN-T) projected Unitary Neural Networks – an alternative method based on rank-k updates that maintain performance at a nearly optimal training runtime.??

Model soups: Averaging Weights of Multiple Fine-tuned Models Improves Accuracy without Increasing Inference Time

In collaboration with the University of Washington Columbia and Tel Aviv University, researchers from Google and Meta proposed a more accurate and robust alternative to the second step of the conventional recipe in the context of fine-turning a large pre-trained model. The second step of the conventional recipe includes picking the individual model that performs best on a held-out validation set, besides training multiple models with various hyperparameters.

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