Our Head of Google Research, @ymatias
, sits down with Dr. R. Kim, Chief Medical Officer of Aravind Eye Hospital for an inspiring fireside chat! Discover how #AI is transforming vision care, helping prevent blindness, and improving lives worldwide: https://
goo.gle/4d7BLst
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AI Transforming Vision Care at Aravind Eye Hospital
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Hierarchies Kill Productivity in Tech Companies
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Some companies can turn the most motivated scientists and engineers into unproductive, complacent hamsters. They do this by introducing a large number of levels and process-heavy performance reviews several times a year. People become obsessed with their level, obsessed with
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MathWorks Engineering Development Group Hiring Process Overview
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Our hiring process is designed to make sure you get the chance to learn about MathWorks while our hiring team learns about you. Learn about the hiring process for full-time and internship positions in the Engineering Development Group at MathWorks https://
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Amazon Integrates Anthropic’s Claude into Alexa AI Revamp
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ificial-intelligence/amazon-turns-anthropics-claude-alexa-ai-revamp-2024-08-30/
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Amazon Alexa to Integrate Claude AI for Voice Assistant Competition
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NEWS: Amazon Alexa will be powered by Claude AI around October according to Reuters. This is huge news and the hardest competition you can ever imagine for Advanced Voice Mode and Gemini Live. Purely due to Alexa’s potential market reach.
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Dr. Sarah Hooker’s Flourishing AI Research Career Recognized
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Congratulations Dr. @sarahookr
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Global Attack on Freedom of Speech Intensifies Worldwide
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Freedom of speech is under massive attack around the world https://t.co/01L9HeUYct
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 30 août 2024Freedom of speech is under massive attack around the world
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Google opens waitlist for an AI audio tool
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ICYMI: Google opened a waitlist for its Illuminate experiment where you can convert your text content into "engaged AI-generated" audio discussions h/t @TheLanceAdams
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Oprah’s AI Program Criticized for Lack of Diversity and Sam Altman Controversy
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It’s really frustrating Oprah chose the Usual (white guys) Suspects for this program. Especially Sam Altman whose ongoing deceptions and weirdness have had more media attention than anyone needs.
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Gemini Ranks #1 in Mathematics with Superhuman Reasoning
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Was late in sharing this, but very glad that the work of our "superhuman reasoning" team, together with many great colleagues at @GoogleDeepMind
, has helped leapfrog #Gemini to rank #1 in Maths!