Marissa Mayer defends asking her AI app what makes her daughter special
The former Yahoo boss says her startup’s camera-roll assistant found details she had forgotten. She told The New York Times she hadn’t thought through an AI-planned family life.
Via TNW | Artificial-intelligence
Marissa Mayer has defended using her startup’s AI assistant to describe her own daughter, after a New York Times profile drew a wave of criticism online.
The former Yahoo chief executive told Alexandra Alter of The New York Times that her daughter’s teacher had asked for three bullet points on what made the girl special. Mayer asked Dazzle, her company’s AI assistant, instead.
“It came back and was like, your daughter is empathetic, creative and an animal lover,” Mayer told…
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