Computer Vision News - April 2022
24 Women in Science discussion group, kind of independent of the corporate structure. It’s a self-organized group. This is for Gen Fem. There are many more self- organized groups that freely discuss important philosophical or political topics that affect work. We areat thecenterofattention as a technology company. It’s also important that they have these discussions about social topics. It is refreshing to see people sit down and have proper discussions about topics that are so hard and so important. You said it’s easy to share your passions and interests in that setting. Can you share one passion or interest of yours that we would not suspect? time, I got the position at DeepMind, and I moved to London about three years ago. This feels so short after the last two years. Tell us something about DeepMind that we don’t know. There are lots of things that people don’t know. The food is very good! [ laughs ] That’s not surprising... One thing I’ve realized at DeepMind: internally, there is a community keen to exchange their passions and interests. We have an internal Slack, which is not common. Google doesn’t have Slack, I think. At DeepMind, we do and there is a channel about everything! In particular, I learned a lot about gender studies and feminism. We have a very lively community of people who know about these things and are happy to debate and exchange. I read a lot of interesting discussions on the Slack channels, and how gender studies and feminism impact us, as a company that tries to do good. We are like a philosophical Let’s exchange! Let’s ask questions!
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