In its early days, Google had an unstated but brilliant recruitment practice: #Olympics medalists were almost guaranteed a job there if they wanted one. The qualities of hard work and perseverance needed for sports success were seen as transferable to work. It's tough to sustain
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Maduro Bans X Platform in Venezuela Amid Elon Musk Feud
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Contested Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered a 10-day ban on social networking platform X, cutting off locals’ access to the platform after a feud with Elon Musk.
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Weekly Dose of Optimism: AI and Tech Innovations
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Get your full Weekly Dose of Optimism, featuring great work from @FEhrsam @quintinfrerichs @anduriltech @GoogleDeepMind @Samsung @abundanceinst
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Apple Silicon ML Deployments Ready for Data Center Production
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Perfect form factor to custom-rack it into a data center! Apple Silicon production ML deployments are coming cc @pcuenq @MorganFunto and others
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Google’s Ping-Pong Robot and Latest AI Breakthroughs
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Top stories in AI today: -Google’s ping-pong-playing robot
-GPT-4 tackles top-secret tasks
-Create custom selfies with Meta AI
-AI speeds up schizophrenia cure
-6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs Read more: http://
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OpenAI Leader Grapples with Work-Life Balance and FOMO
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A surprisingly hard part of my break is beginning—the FOMO for everything happening at OpenAI right now. Lots of results cooking. I’ve poured my life for the past 9 years into OpenAI, including the entirety of my marriage. Our work is important to me, but so is life. I feel ok
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Noam Shazeer Joins Google DeepMind for Gemini AGI Research
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Thrilled to welcome @NoamShazeer to @GoogleDeepMind (& back to @Google
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Billionaire Tech Founders’ Hidden Influence Through AI Philanthropy
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i don't think it's a secret that a16z is billionaire techie-founder AI-investor $$$! 😀 otoh open philanthropy et al being vehicles for billionaire techie-founder AI-investors is less well understood.
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OpenAI Appoints Computer Scientist Zico Kolter to Board
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New from me: OpenAI Names Computer Scientist Zico Kolter as New Board Member
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GPT-4o System Card: Security Challenges in Advanced AI Models
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Lectura muy interesante. OpenAI ha liberado el system card del modelo GPT-4o. Entre más potentes y versátiles son estos modelos, más problemas de seguridad acarrean, y localizarlos antes de publicar los modelos es complicado De ahí los retrasos y limitaciones de funcionalidades.