Is it just me or there are not many african americans working in AI research and industry. I don't have stats to back me up but that's my personal observation. People in the field, what are your thoughts on it.
This twitter may be of interest to you, they aggregate information on this topic. https://twitter.com/black_in_ai. I don't know why race is relevant to this article though. Must we make everything a race issue?
Thank you for this!!!
You're welcome!!!
There are just not many AA in tech in the bay area. Most pictures from Silicon Valley often look like that.
I thought a similar thing when I saw that pic: Not a single black male or female. And I'm all like, "Where am I?" LoL
I don't have any statistics for you, but Google at least is looking to improve on this a bit. A good friend of mine from their NYC Brain office moved to Accra, Ghana just last week to help build out their new office there.
I don't think an office in Ghana would be employing very many African Americans (or, for that matter, very many Americans of any background).
A Ghana office would be presumably to recruit Africans, not African Americans. There is a difference :)
Certainly there seem to be no black folks in the photo captioned "OpenAI team and their families at our November 2018 offsite."
African-American Founder/Research Engineer of AGI venture (Monad.ai) here. We exist.