6 | Diversity & Tech: The Key to a Perceptive AI

Connie Fan, a data solution architect at Microsoft, joins us to share her experiences in the computer sciences, her journey as a female immigrant in a male dominated technology industry, and her perspective on the importance of diversity in this new era of AI. Some of the things we underscore in this episode: how homogeneous groups in AI programming are ultimately not good for business and for the world, how businesses should acquire high performance talent, and the importance of growth mindset in a dynamic field that is constantly changing.Some noteworthy concepts covered:-Why Artificial Intelligence needs diverse programmers-Growth mindset: contracting vs expanding personalities-Perspectives on how businesses can create healthy learning environments-Predictive analytics success metrics: looking at problems from the lens of an end consumerConnie has also been instructing big data and data science for UCLA Extension for the last 2.5 years.You can contact Connie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conniefan1/Resources:Diversity Data: https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/reports/hightech/Books referenced:Grit by Angela Ducksworth:Growth Mindset by Carol Dweck:Please feel free to follow me on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Medium, or at my website: www.derekwesleyrussell.comThank you so much for listening!Shout outs:*Podcast Photo by Markus Spiske freeforcommercialuse.net from Pexels*Intro music (beginning only): Orion, by Pedro Santiago*License