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Timnit Gebru honored as an Alicorn of Artificial Intelligence by People in AI

Meet Timnit Gebru, a person who The Selfpreneur has awarded the rare title of “Alicorn in Artificial Intelligence.” Read on to learn why she’s earned such a coveted title. Let’s start with the backstory: Most stories of technology innovators

Meet Timnit Gebru, a person who The Selfpreneur has awarded the rare title of “Alicorn in Artificial Intelligence.” Read on to learn why she’s earned such a coveted title.

Let’s start with the backstory: Most stories of technology innovators start with them getting on a plane. But it’s somewhat rare for the plane to originate from Ethiopia, a country known as the birthplace of man in the horn of Africa. That’s exactly where Gebru’s story began. As a teenager, she left her native country to move to the United States and began embarking on a journey that would lead her to achieve a Bachelors, Master’s and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. From there she earned a prestigious engineering job at Apple, then co-founded a startup. That should be enough right? Not for Gebru! She left Apple in the past, and now she is a Ph.D. Candidate at Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. But there’s more.

Gebru’s work was featured this year by The Economist. They highlighted her research to use machine learning and deep learning to predict census data using millions of images from google street view.

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  • Isaac September 21, 2017

    She is the beloved doughter of doctor Ghebru who was the first doctor in hydro electric engineer in Ethiopia. He was an eritrean from Adi Abu were dating segheneiti

  • Isaac September 21, 2017

    She is the beloved doughter of doctor Ghebru who was the first doctor in hydro electric engineer in Ethiopia. He was an eritrean from Adi Abur wereda segheneiti

  • Amba September 22, 2017

    Congratulations Timnit,
    You have given pride and honour to your Afro roots and to your great Axumite, Qohayto and Agawi ancestors in particular who had pride in their identity. languages and heritage. You are a great role model to our lost youth who have been denied their true history and heritage by elites of enslaved minds.
    Thanks to your parents who inculcated the the true values of education in Ethiopia, as our roving deacon – “diaqon”
    and debteras used to do, and the values of persistence, patience and perseverance of hard work.

  • Simon G September 22, 2017

    Great job Timnit. Proud of you!

    ኣለዋና! ኣለዉና!
    ኣይጠፋእናን ጌና
    ኣይክንጠፍእን ‘ውን ኢና

    በዓል በራኺ
    ብቐትሪ ሓርናኺ

    ብዓል እርምያስ
    ፍረታት ክሻ: ማንኪ: ምስ ኢሳያስ
    ጸረ ሰላም ጸረ ሓጎስ
    ክስእኑ ድቃስ!

    ናይ ብዓል ሊንጎ ትምኒት
    ኤርትራ ንድሕሪት
    ጸገም ሕስራን ከርተት

    ናትና ጥፍ ኣት ትመርጹ
    ሕልምኹም ኣቋርጹ
    ተስፋ ደኣ ቁረጹ

    ግን: ግን ‘የ ደልኩ
    ኣይክሰምርን ዩ ናትኩም ጸሎት
    ማርሻኹም ቀይሩ
    ኤርትራስ ኣይትኣቱን ናብ ደልሃመት
    ክትንስእ ‘ያ ብሃንደበት
    ከመቕጽበት!

    ኣየ ‘ወ!
    ደቃ ክዕንድሩ
    ዓወት: ፍስሃ ወ ሰላም ኢሎም ክጭድሩ
    ክዘሉ ክዕንድሩ
    ዜማ ናይ ዕቤት: ምዕብልና ክዝምሩ
    ኤርትራ ክትነብር ‘ያ ንሓዋሩ
    ኣሜን ደኣ በሉ!

  • k.tewolde September 22, 2017

    My kind of lady,you work hard in life,you give it all you got honestly,you take advantage of the opportunities presented to you and keep the almighty at your side,the sky is the limit. On the contrary,you steal something that is not yours,evict people from their homestead,spread envy and jealousy,lie,cheat,intrude in people’s privacy,stalk people,spy,murder….the pervasive culture in HGDEF’s, era, you are doomed to fail.That is why we witness this static,bleak,apocalyptic picture of our homeland.

    • k.tewolde September 22, 2017

      In other words,you sequester and institutionalize the young budding mind and quarantine the soul of a whole generation and drill an archaic and mundane and uniform thought,chances are remote to get a product like Timnit. Congrat young lady,you are the Angela Davis of your generation.

  • Danilo September 22, 2017

    Congratulations TIMNIT GEBRU, you are jewel for your parents and all of us. especially to the origin ( ADEBUUR, ERITREA ). We are proud of you. Your native country, continent as well as the whole world.

  • haki September 22, 2017

    Thanks Siss.If you want your children to become like our great siss just buy for them at the very young age development boards such as Arduino for instance,they are many on the market…make them aquaintance with electronics, C and C++ and Arduino languages(simplified C) and many others, it is wonderful thing guys, to programm things the way you want them to act and behave…from controlling LEDs to robots…it is wonderfull to control things with the tiny microcontrollers.You can order the stuffs cheaply from China on Ebay or others but Ebay is the cheapest one.Some of the comments above bear the finger print of boredomness. i understand life can be boring if you have nothing else to do …why wasting your precious time on crap paltalks and useless websites?Discover the Arduino world from many others and i can tell it is going to open a new window and chapter in your life and you are going to chase one discovery after another.As a beginner the price you have to pay is only patience…Education has never been as easy as it is today thanks to internet and google and you tube and those generous who share their knowledge to the masses…for instance lets say those who have given me their ears the 100 of them are going to buy Arduino boards immediately for their sohns and doughters,i would not dare to say 50 of them but 25 of them in 20-25 years are going to end up like our Siss Timnit Gebru and even beyond.imagine if you are able to command microcontrollers what,when where,how to do their duty there is nothing fablous and fantastic achievment than that. those of us who are able to visit home if every indivisual takes one arduino board kit(price from China 20-25 Euros) and give it to the school,teachers,college students,students at elementary,it can make astronomical difference first to the students and second to the country and society.If we want a bright tomorrow we have to invest and care of todays joungs.If we teach our children the machine languages and electronics the same as Ha,Hu,Hi…Just download Arduino and sail to the world electronics and microcontrollers and i can tell you it is fun….good luck

  • Danilo September 22, 2017

    Dear brother SIMON. G, gerkalom natom! Apart, very impressive poetry nevertheless, those anti eritreans got a big doss as a valid massage.

  • brhan Haqi September 22, 2017

    Timnit, You are an inspiration to your roots, to all women and specially to women of color, and .others . Great achievement, God Bless you!

    While one share this inspiring and beautiful article others rush to share their ignorance , how LOW one can be! indeed, the number one enemy of people is IGNORANCE.

  • Almaz September 23, 2017

    Go sister —- goal Eri ambessa!

    Love!

    Almaz

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