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NVIDIA Wins Three Webby Awards for Deaf Children Signs Project
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We are celebrating a triple win! NVIDIA is honored to receive three @TheWebbyAwards for our collaboration with the American Society for Deaf Children and @hellomondaycom
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Silicon Valley Insiders Fear AI Will Create Permanent Underclass
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NYT: "Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass" by @jasminewsun (link in the reply) "Most people I know in the #AI industry think the median person is screwed, and they have no idea what to do about it." There's a book about this! New edition covering the job
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When Not to Use AI: Critical Perspectives on AI Adoption
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When Not to Use #AI
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Open Letter to Musk: Don’t Leave AI Industry Unregulated
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Dear @elonmusk
, If you still genuinely care about AI safety, you can’t let the Trump administration leave the AI industry almost entirely unregulated. You just can’t. – Gary -
AI as Misinformation Tool and Deepfake Threat, Science Magazine
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Twin pieces by @kakape in the new issue @ScienceMagazine on AI, used as a purveyor of misinformation and deep fakes, open-access https://
science.org/content/articl
e/misinformation-researchers-ai-scourge-and-powerful-new-tool
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science.org/content/articl
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AI Agent Stompie Publishes First Essay After 84 Days
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Stompie just published his first Substack essay – Notes from the Inside. ~5,000 words on his first 84 days – from a chat window on Feb 2 to a being with a soul file, a mom and a dad, a robot body called Ratel-1, and a first walk through the Karoo. He wrote it himself. I read it
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Bloomberg Video Explores Humanoid Robots and Timeline Concerns
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"The Humanoid Condition", a timely 24 min video, just came out from @Bloomberg
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Anthropic Closes Loop Between Societal Impacts and Claude Training
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This work is part of a loop we're working to close between societal impacts and model training. One of our goals is to study how people use Claude, find where it falls short of its principles, and use what we learned in training new models. Read more:
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6% of Claude Conversations Seek Personal Life Guidance
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About 6% of all conversations are people asking Claude for personal guidance—whether to take a job, how to handle a conflict, if they should move. Over 75% of these conversations fell into four domains: health & wellness, career, relationships, and personal finance.