Episode Synopsis "#2 Why Amazon's Alexa is Female with Noelle Silver (Amazon, Microsoft, Women in AI)"

Why is Alexa female? Why are only 26% of the people working in the field of AI women? What are the consequences of the lack of representation?  In this episode of AI LITERACY, we talk to Noelle Silver, founder of Women in AI and Microsoft MVP in AI who has worked at Microsoft, Amazon and IBM. We are discussing how artificial intelligence is adopting stereotypes about the role of women and how a lack of diversity can have a tremendous impact on the success of AI technologies.

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