It is by far not only a matter of «want ».
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Well. I think Marie Curie would disagree.
Are there artificial barriers to entry aside from skill and desire?
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IMarie Curie did succeed but if you read her story you will understand how much she had to fight for something which was absolutely the norm for men. She had an incredible husband and received support from him and other men scientists. Skill and desire wouldn’t have been enough.
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Right, but that was 150 years ago.
Absolutely nothing prevents women from getting into AI except themselves. At least in first world countries. Men are the ones who develop most scientific fields and trailblaze them and then women tend to enter later. That's the history of it.
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Disagree based on facts:
1) women have contributions to science in spite of all barriers but history of science was written by men. It is changing.
2) a time/culture constraint for women: maternity. 3 days ago a woman told me she lost her PhD scholarship because of pregnancy.
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When I attend mainstream #technology, analytics and #AI conferences in London the representation of women is about 20% to 40%. I genuinely want to understand reasons for this and help to solve it.
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Why does it need to be solved?
Are you going to force women into AI?
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I just believe that data and technology, the algorithms, are supposed to represent the whole of society
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You think in limited and antiquated terms. Martin Luther King Jr was against this.
Character, not skin. Not sex.
You don't have to be an AI scientist to influence AI.
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Talking about people in terms of sex and and skin color is like running into a black person and asking him if he knows that other black person. Because surely they would.
Diversity allows people to choose their own path. You can't have diversity by forcing people to be alike.
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That being said, sure. I think individual efforts to help anyone who wants to be in the field are great. But if we look at someone and say "you are X, therefore you are different", we are thinking in regressive terms.
One of the things I see is that not so much that people want AI to treat color and sex equally whenever possible but to have AI cater to groupist tendencies in the same way humans try to do, always creating misery and counter misery. AI shouldn't have subroutines like that.