I'll be in London in September talking about the promise and peril of AI with the Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, Zanny Minton-Beddoes. @zannymb Join me at the @TabernacleW11 in Notting Hill. Sept 11, 7pm BST | @Intelligencesquared
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Proposal for International Panel on AI to Guide Policymaking
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Great talking to @bloombergtv w/ @ianbremmer about our new proposal to create an IPCC for AI – an International Panel on AI – to independently document the progress being made in AI, in order to inform good policymaking https://
youtube.com/watch?v=ByWufw
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Balancing Long-Term Vision with Near-Term Action in Data Strategy
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Balancing long-term vision with near-term action with Vercel’s VP of Data https://
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Supporting Good Science in Psychology Through Donation
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I just donated. If you care about good science in psychology, you should too.
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Enterprise AI Adoption: Security and Technical Debt Concerns
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“We’ve talked to hundreds of customers looking to adopt generative AI who have concerns about existing tools on the market, including security and reputational risks, vendor lock-in and mounting technical debt from piecemeal solutions. With over a decade at the forefront of AI
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The Sin of Indistinguishable from Magic in LLM Hype
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BTW my diagnosis of the LLM hype is the "indistinguishable from magic" sin. LLMs did something surprising and for which we humans had no obvious mental model, so LLMs quickly became capable, in our minds, of anything imaginable.
https://technologyreview.com/2017/10/06/241837/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-ai-predictions/
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Transformer Pioneer Launches Adaptable AI Models Research Lab
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A Godfather of Transformers Launches Lab Developing More Adaptable AI Models @theinformation https://
theinformation.com/articles/a-god
father-of-transformers-launches-lab-developing-more-adaptable-ai-models-databricks-and-openai-in-dealmaking-mode
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Founders Lose Billions by Faking Status Instead of Embracing Weirdness
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Billions of dollars in value are lost by founders trying to be some high-status thing they're not, instead of letting themselves be the weird thing they are.
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LLM Hype Cycle Peaks as Tech Cycles Grow Larger
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Tech hype cycles are getting larger in amplitude and frequency. Seems to me LLM hype has just passed peak. Yet another case of "Looking for 愛 in all the wrong places"? [[Yes, it is a really bad kanji/romaji pun…]]
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SAS Viya Cloud-Native AI Analytics Platform Launch Event
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Viya Las Vegas (see what we did there?). Hear the latest from Shadi Shahin, SAS VP of Product Strategy, at #ExploreSAS. SAS Viya is the cloud-native AI and analytics platform that helps you get more done, faster. Network + sharpen your skills with us! http://
2.sas.com/6015PYdLd