The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the ongoing struggle for gender equality in the tech industry, particularly in leadership positions.
Kara Swisher points out the persistent issue of underrepresentation of women in senior management roles and on boards within the tech industry, especially in Silicon Valley. Despite ongoing conversations and efforts to address this disparity, progress appears slow, indicating a need for more decisive actions to improve gender diversity and inclusion.
In practice
This quote can be used in a panel discussion about gender equality in the tech sector.
Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook.
We humans are not the end of evolution, so if we can make a machine that's as smart as a person, we can probably also make one that's much smarter. There's no point in making just another person. You want to make one that can do things we can't.
We want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences.
We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.
Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.
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