The Women Leading the AI Revolution

Many of today's consumer-focused AI are fashioned after women: Siri, Alexa, Cortana, just to name a few. Female voices are considered friendlier and more helpful, but consumer AI is also in a subservient role. In reality, women are adding so much more to the field of AI than their voices. Today, though only 18 percent of C-level positions in the artificial intelligence/machine learning space are filled by women, which is not an usual figure in the tech sphere, but that does not take into account all the influential women building companies centered around AI. According to some studies, only 13.5 percent of the machine learning field and fewer than 10 percent in AI are women, and while it's important to acknowledge the gender gap, one must also acknowledge the many chief scientists and researchers making great strides in machine learning and AI.