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Does the gender pay gap extend to AI? New research finds female AI agents ‘paid’ less (www.eurekalert.org)
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[–] 25 points 1 month ago (12 children)

We need a new study to understand why we would pay a computer program and why we gave a gender to a bunch of bits.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    It's a computer, so it can't be non-binary.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Sure it can, quantumn computers aren't binary.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    No they are binary. Qubits only contain 1 bit of information.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

    but that bit is not only 1 or 0, which means that a qubit isn't binary.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    It is only a 0 or 1. A qubit has never been observed to be anything else.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    True, but they have the third state of superposition giving them a total of 3 possible states; 0, 1 and both simultaneously

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Superposition really is just a mathematical notation to predict how the qubits will behave. It's arguably nomological not ontological. No one has ever in history measured or detected or observed a qubit to be in this "third state." It's always found to just have a bit value of 0 or 1. The mathematical book keeping is just a way to predict that 0 or 1 and doesn't describe a third state.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Isn't the modern approach to gender that gender is a completely arbitrary characteristic? So why not? For example, in my native languages every noun has grammatical gender. So for me the idea of intellect being male and a tire being female is completely ok.

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    • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    This is worst than AI slop.

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    [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Participants were then given real money to divide between themselves and the AI assistant

    Uh huh.... wat...

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    [–] 4 points 1 month ago*

    Oh FFS…. I want to wake up from this dumb shit so much!

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