Why did OpenAI use Scarlett Johansson's voice? As Jessa Lingel & I discuss in our journal article on AI agents, there's a long history of using white women's voices to “personalize” a technology to make it feel safe and non-threatening while it is capturing maximum data.
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AI Assistants and the Gendered Legacy of the Secretary Role
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AI assistants invoke gendered traditions of the secretary, a figure of administrative and emotional support, often sexualized. Underpaid and undervalued, secretaries still had a lot of insight into private and commercially sensitive dealings. They had power through information.
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AI Agents Discussion with Nathan Lands and MReflow
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Had an awesome chat with @nathanlands and @mreflow all about… AI agents!
— Yohei (@yoheinakajima) 21 mai 2024
I connected with Nathan right when BabyAGI came out a year ago, so it was fun to do a full circle here 🙂
Check out the rest on the latest The Next Wave pod here: https://t.co/BKCzQpvbGq pic.twitter.com/cM1106u4hpHad an awesome chat with @nathanlands and @mreflow all about… AI agents! I connected with Nathan right when BabyAGI came out a year ago, so it was fun to do a full circle here 🙂 Check out the rest on the latest The Next Wave pod here: https://
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Expanding the reach of AI copilots across organizational teams
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More demos. Creating copilots will be generally possible (across team orgs I suppose).
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AI Copilot Integration with Custom Connectors
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Copilots seem to be able to access many different connectors including customs
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New Agent Capabilities Added to Microsoft Copilot
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More info on Copilot Teams https://
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Team Copilot’s Role as a Meeting Facilitator
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Team Copilot is meant to be a meeting facilitator. It does time tracking, taking notes, etc
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AI-Augmented and Autonomous Everything: Future Vision
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What does the world look like when we have #augmented and #autonomous #AI everything? https://
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Exploring the World with Augmented and Autonomous AI
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What does the world look like when we have augmented and autonomous AI everything? https://
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i-enabled-vision-of-the-future-ai-augmented-everything-ai-today-podcast/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
… #AIFuture #augmented #autonomous #AI