About Timnit
Ethiopian-born Eritrean computer scientist who earned a PhD in computer vision from Stanford University in 2017 under Fei-Fei Li. Worked as an audio engineer and signal processing engineer at Apple from 2004-2013, including on iPad development. Conducted research at Stanford and Microsoft on computer vision, demographic inference from street-view imagery, and facial recognition bias. Joined Google in 2018 as technical co-lead of the Ethical AI team and co-authored "Stochastic Parrots" examining risks of large language models.
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Known for
- Algorithmic bias in machine learning and computer vision
- AI ethics and responsible AI development
- Stochastic Parrots paper on risks of large language models
- Gender Shades research on facial recognition bias against Black women
- Black in AI co-founder and advocacy work
- Research using computer vision to infer demographics and socioeconomic attributes from street imagery
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