This was a few years into the Google Brain project, so some of my speaking parts describe some of the early Google Brain work on unsupervised learning, scaling of ML training, speech recognition, etc.
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Tech Leaders Reflect on Industry Influence and Cultural Priorities
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Ran across this video of a fireside chat that Urs Hölzle, myself and Eric Brewer did together 9 years ago. I enjoyed the YouTube comment on the video: "Kids spend more time listening to rap songs than to Jeff Dean…we are in such a sad state."
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Cross-Platform Strategy Against Apple Vertical Ecosystem Dominance
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best defense is to sweep the other side of the market and build a strong cross platform network. if it’s really breakthrough Apple will be much more than 3 years to market, but no amount of branding will protect against their vertical ecosystem
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Cerebras Director Co-chairs Hot Chips Program Committee
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Cerebras’ Director of Product, Natalia Vassilieva, is serving as a co-chair on the @hotchipsorg Program Committee. Interested in chatting with Natalia and learning more about Cerebras or Hot Chips? Let us know, and we’ll arrange a meeting! https://
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NIST AI Risk Management Roadmap Advances Risk Framework
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Here is @NIST AI Risk Management Roadmap (RMF). It identifies key activities for advancing the AI RMF that could be carried out by NIST in collaboration with private and public sector organizations. @NACD #RiskManagement #CEOs #ArtificialInteligence #GenerativeAI
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Cruise autonomous vehicles involved in multiple collisions in San Francisco
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Thu Aug 17th @cruise collided with emergency vehicle in SF. There were 300 Cruises operating then. On Aug 24th when there were 150 Cruises operating (permissions downgraded after crash) & another one collided with a backhoe on Gough. Not good numbers.
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ECMWF Leads AI Methods for Weather Forecasting Research
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Excited to see @ECMWF take the lead in exploring #AI methods for weather forecasting building on our research efforts at @nvidia Earth-2 as well as from other labs https://
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Samsung Restricts ChatGPT Use Due to Sensitive Code Leak
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Samsung Bans ChatGPT Among Employees After Sensitive Code Leak
#AI #AIio #BigData #ML #NLU #Futureofwork @Kevin_Jackson @sallyeaves @schmarzo @kdnuggets @akwyz @BrettKing @TechNative @MiaD http://
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Microsoft AI Solutions Boost Frontline Worker Productivity
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Microsoft unveils next-gen AI solutions to boost frontline productivity amid labor challenges https://
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NVIDIA Sponsors Indaba Conference Event
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Great to see @nvidia sponsoring Indaba. Fond memories from the first Indaba event @NandoDF