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Keynote Speaker – Margaret Mitchell

Talkat PyCon US 2023 · 2023-04-19..04-27· [large-language-models, machine-learning]
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Creates early image‑description systems in 2011 that surpass human BLEU scores yet fail blind users because BLEU misses real needs; builds a Seeing AI prototype and a storytelling model that exhibits an everything is awesome failure mode. Implements the workflow in Python using NLTK TensorFlow scikit‑learn pandas and Gradio Streamlit, and publishes open‑source tooling on Hugging Face to measure data with Zipf checks co‑occurrence counts and normalized pointwise mutual information plus a data set card system.

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  1. 0:00Introduction and background
  2. 1:32Evolution of programming
  3. 6:01Transition to machine learning
  4. 8:27Real-world impact of AI
  5. 12:31The importance of foresight
  6. 14:42The 'everything is awesome' bias
  7. 17:55Bias in the ML pipeline
  8. 22:51Value judgments in deployment
  9. 26:08Tensions in data development
  10. 29:51Operationalizing data ethics
  11. 33:30Measuring data quality
  12. 37:49Future directions and closing
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