Google fires another AI researcher who reportedly challenged findings
Obviously don't know the full context of why Satrajit Chatterjee was fired, but I <i>can</i> say that I followed the Timnit Gebru story quite closely, and there was a gigantic chasm, IMO, between what actually happened (and by "what actually happened" I mean that I'm conservatively just considering Gebru's own statements and tweets) and how things were reported in the wider press.<p>The press will always be incentivized to report on "big bad Google" and make any termination sound like a David vs. Goliath battle. And, of course, while sometimes that narrative <i>is</i> true, there have been many cases where I've thought "These are some of the most toxic individuals I can imagine (again, by their <i>own</i> statements), and working with them sounds like a nightmare." To emphasize, I'm definitely not saying that's the case in the current example, but I am saying that nobody has enough info one way or the other unless they are more personally familiar with the details. Reactions based on what's written in the article are thus just personal Rorschach tests.