Mays: Diverse product teams are essential for robust AI algorithms
James Mays · The $300 Membership Model That Replaced 5 Conferences · Oct 9, 2020 · at 19:03
James Mays, co-founder of Mind the Product, explains why background diversity is necessary to challenge ideas and reduce bias in software development.
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“The value of having diversity, particularly in product teams, because you have people who've come up in different educational backgrounds, different philosophical backgrounds, different religious backgrounds. They've experienced different pressures through their lives in growing up. And when you get Those different opinions coming together. It results in saying, I've got an idea. Cool. Well, that sounds good to you. Let me challenge it from the perspectives that I hold. And you end up with that idea being beaten senseless from so many different directions that it emerges far stronger and far more robust. But it's that diversity underpinning the thing that's going to be the crucial point in things like AI algorithms.”
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