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Timnit Gebru:   Timnit Gebru is an Eritrean Ethiopian-born  computer scientist  who works in the fields of  artificial intelligence  (AI),  algorithmic bias  and  data mining . In 2001, Gebru was accepted at  Stanford University .  There she earned her  Bachelor of Science  and  Master of Science  degrees in  electrical engineering  and her PhD in  computer vision  in 2017.  Gebru was advised during her PhD program by  Fei-Fei Li . She says she was fired after sending an internal email that accused Google of "silencing marginalized voices". Dr Gebru alleges that as she was preparing to go on leave, she was called to a meeting about a research paper she had co-written. She said she was ordered to retract the research paper and that Google was not prepared to engage in a discussion about the matter.   In June 2021, Gebru announced that she was raising money to "lau...

03/10/23 In today's lesson, we learnt about  Free culture: The gift economy and the commons. We firstly started by learning about Intellectual Property Rights and Commercial Piracy, which are the rights that are given to you for your creations for a certain amount of time, and the unauthorized taking of other people's content in a commercial context. We then learnt about Open Source, and how this is a free license, but does not mean that it doesn't have a copyrightable value. We then looked into hacking, which is when code is changed to enable a program to do something that it wasn't originally intended to do, and how this can connect to rights. This can be connected in such ways as how a mickey mouse 3D model blueprint cannot be sold to consumers  due to it's rights held by Disney, however people have managed to hack the code to change the look of the blueprints, and then sell these edited versions with instructions on how to recreate the original pattern. 10/10/23...