Artificial Intelligence's Rise Exposes Gaping Gender Gap

NEW YORK – The challenges of making the technology industry a more welcoming place for women are numerous.

That's especially true for the booming field of artificial intelligence.

To get a sense of just how monumental a task the tech community faces, look no further than AI's marquee conference.

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Preparations for this year's event drew controversy not only because there weren't enough female speakers or research paper authors.

The debate was more basic: It involved the conference name.

The annual Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems, formerly known as NIPS, had become a punchline symbol of tech's gender imbalance.

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Thousands of AI researchers convened in Montreal last week under a slightly tweaked banner — NeurIPS — and new industry attention devoted to combatting harassment and sexism.

 

By AP reporter Matt O'Brien

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