Major AI conference is moving to Africa in 2020 due to visa issues
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Re: Major AI conference is moving to Africa in 2020 due to visa issues
#2Isn’t Trudeau’s Canada supposed to be be a free-for-all “post-national” state?
Re: Major AI conference is moving to Africa in 2020 due to visa issues
#3In addition to helping other countries, which I think they should rightfully do and am happy to hear about. I wonder if the A.I. community will invest in educating the lesser privledged in their local communities? Mainly those from poor areas that don’t have access to technology and educational resources?
Re: Major AI conference is moving to Africa in 2020 due to visa issues
#4In addition to helping other countries, which I think they should rightfully do and am happy to hear about. I wonder if the A.I. community will invest in educating the lesser privledged in their local communities? Mainly those from poor areas that don’t have access to technology and educational resources?
This is whataboutism.
Re: Major AI conference is moving to Africa in 2020 due to visa issues
#5In addition to helping other countries, which I think they should rightfully do and am happy to hear about. I wonder if the A.I. community will invest in educating the lesser privledged in their local communities? Mainly those from poor areas that don’t have access to technology and educational resources?
This is a problem with the local politics of your country, nothing to do with the "A.I. community".
This conference is not going elsewhere to "help poor people", but because it is too difficult for international researchers to go to the U.S.A., and many do not bother at all, resulting in a worse conference. I for one would not even consider going to the states for a conference, but often go to other countries.
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#6In addition to helping other countries, which I think they should rightfully do and am happy to hear about. I wonder if the A.I. community will invest in educating the lesser privledged in their local communities? Mainly those from poor areas that don’t have access to technology and educational resources?
There's Internet, I hope that everyone in US have access. If you want to learn programming, just do it.
Re: Major AI conference is moving to Africa in 2020 due to visa issues
#7I welcome the choice of moving the conference to a place where there are no logistic problems.
As a scientist, however, I abhor organizations such as BlacksInAI: in science there’s no place for identity politics.
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#8from https://mobile.twitter.com/jm_alexia/status/1064206569141923...
"Homosexuality is a criminal offense in Ethiopia, there's no way I'm ever submitting an abstract to #ICLR next year... I can't risk my life.
I guess there will be more racial diversity, at the cost of no more #LGBT diversity."
Re: Major AI conference is moving to Africa in 2020 due to visa issues
#9Unfortunately this sounds more like a gimmick than anything else.
I have a small suspicion that those who decided for that never set foot in the countries considered for this (though I might be wrong).
Though it is undeniable that there is talent there and we should try to make things easier to them, there is a limit and a compromise in making things not harder for other people as well.
As someone familiar with 3rd world country business, a lot of things people take for granted is not trivial
Re: Major AI conference is moving to Africa in 2020 due to visa issues
#10Unfortunately this sounds more like a gimmick than anything else. I have a small suspicion that those who decided for that never set foot in the countries considered for this (though I might be wrong). Though it is undeniable that there is talent there and we should try to make things easier to them, there is a limit and a compromise in making things not harder for other people as well. As someone familiar with 3rd w…
Just as a datapoint: the author of cURL basically can’t go to the US right now for.... some reason https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/07/28/administrative-purgat...
The opaqueness of the US system is pretty high.
I do agree that other places have bigger problems. There won’t be too many conferences in Saudi Arabia I bet.