In the past few years, @MITAppInventor has collaborated with trusted organizations across the world to provide equitable access to STEM education, including @codeorg @GirlsWhoCode @BlackGirlsCODE @itsYRmedia @technovation (6/N)
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AI excels at teaching and copying, struggles with novel ideas
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Good callout! Wording could definitely be tighter (and I'm by no means an expert here, just going off of my best understanding). My main point here is that AI is better at things that can be taught and copied than at novel idea generation, and I think that stands.
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Student Uses MIT App Inventor to Detect Lead Contamination
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We are constantly in awe of how students use @MITAppInventor to address issues in their local communities. Take @gitanjaliarao for example. As a middle school student, she built an app that helped detect lead contamination in Flint, Michigan. (5/N)
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GPL Licensing Concerns for Commercial Software Development
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With a commercial version? I wouldn‘t touch GPL code for any private project and in a company I would instruct folks to not even look at it; don‘t ever want to contaminate something with GPL.
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MIT App Inventor Foundation launches seed funding campaign
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We’re now raising seed funding for App Inventor Foundation! Seed funding will support infrastructure investments to sustain @MITAppInventor
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Excitement for 2023 Language AI Research and Team Achievements
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Delighted to see the work from our team (chain-of-thought prompting, emergent abilities, self-consistency, med-palm) featured here, and super excited for language AI research to continue in 2023!
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MIT App Inventor Foundation Launches to Empower Community App Creators
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Seeing that @MITAppInventor is far beyond the normal size of a research project, we decided to launch the App Inventor Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit incubated @MIT_CSAIL
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MIT App Inventor Reaches 9.2 Million Users Globally
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@MITAppInventor grew extremely quickly in the past 2 years. It’s run by a small team of 10 people in a lab @MIT_CSAIL
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MIT App Inventor Foundation Launches CS and AI Education Initiative
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We’re launching App Inventor Foundation, a new #nonprofit focused on CS+AI education and outreach, to amplify world-class research from @MITAppInventor into real-world impact! More details below https://
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Predibase Honored as Top Impact Big Data Company
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Starting the year off with a bang Thank you @insideBigData for including @predibase as an honorable mention on IMPACT 50 Most Impactful #BigData Companies! https://
insidebigdata.com/2023/01/17/the
-insidebigdata-impact-50-list-for-q1-2023/
… #ML #MachineLearning #DeepLearning