Joaquin Candela — Definitions of Fairness

Joaquin chats about scaling and democratizing AI at Facebook, while understanding fairness and algorithmic bias.---Joaquin Quiñonero Candela is Distinguished Tech Lead for Responsible AI at Facebook, where he aims to understand and mitigate the risks and unintended consequences of the widespread use of AI across Facebook. He was previously Director of Society and AI Lab and Director of Engineering for Applied ML. Before joining Facebook, Joaquin taught at the University of Cambridge, and worked at Microsoft Research.Connect with Joaquin:Personal website: https://quinonero.net/Twitter: https://twitter.com/jquinoneroLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaquin-qui%C3%B1onero-candela-440844/---Topics Discussed:0:00 Intro, sneak peak0:53 Looking back at building and scaling AI at Facebook10:31 How do you ship a model every week?15:36 Getting buy-in to use a system19:36 More on ML tools24:01 Responsible AI at Facebook38:33 How to engage with those effected by ML decisions41:54 Approaches to fairness53:10 How to know things are built right59:34 Diversity, inclusion, and AI1:14:21 Underrated aspect of AI1:16:43 Hardest thing when putting models into productionTranscript:http://wandb.me/gd-joaquin-candelaLinks Discussed: Race and Gender (2019): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.06165.pdfLessons from Archives: Strategies for Collecting Sociocultural Data in Machine Learning (2019): https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10389Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification (2018): http://proceedings.mlr.press/v81/buolamwini18a.html---Get our podcast on these platforms:Apple Podcasts: http://wandb.me/apple-podcasts​​Spotify: http://wandb.me/spotify​Google Podcasts: http://wandb.me/google-podcasts​​YouTube: http://wandb.me/youtube​​Soundcloud: http://wandb.me/soundcloud​Join our community of ML practitioners where we host AMAs, share interesting projects and meet other people working in Deep Learning:http://wandb.me/slack​​Check out Fully Connected, which features curated machine learning reports by researchers exploring deep learning techniques, Kagglers showcasing winning models, industry leaders sharing best practices, and more:https://wandb.ai/fully-connected