Heman Bekele was inspired by Ethiopian workers laboring under the sun, and wanted to help ‘as many people as possible’
A middle-school teen has been named “America’s top young scientist” after developing a bar of soap that could be useful in the treatment of melanoma, a skin cancer that is diagnosed in about 100,000 people in the US each year and kills approximately 8,000.
There’s no way that dude is 14. Perhaps I’ve been staring at AI creepiness too long but that guy is easily mid 20’s.
Adultificaton is a common racial bias where people see black children as older than they are, it results in a number of problems for those children.
I have fallen for this bias, as a largely unconscious bias we all can fall for it. I think one of the things we can do is self check when it happens to us and point it out when others perpetuate it.
Ok. Fair point. Didn’t know that. Will do better. Maybe it’s the small photo I’m looking at. There’s no racism intended.
You’re awesome, Good work.
I’m not sure how to interpret this comment.
Are you saying you’ve been staring at a lot of AI generated children?
Would you like to take a seat right over there?
This is one reason why black children are killed by police at higher rates than other races, because they often look older than they actually are and people/police assume they’re adults when they are not
Yea, adultificaton. Lots of peer reviewed papers written on it.
Because prodigies can’t exist? Or is it some other less savoury preconception?
So this is a 21 Jump Street scenario, except with medicine?