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When you think about self-driving trucks, you want them to drive like humans but not make the mistakes we do. Enter verifiable AI, Aurora's approach to building safer autonomous technology. https://lnkd.in/g3X-WDpS

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Ever heard of 'spatial intelligence'? I'm excited to share that I've been recruited by OpenWater Group to become a "founding ambassador" for their new invite-only wisdom network think tank! You can expect me to repost interesting insights from community members to help elevate their mission of fostering knowledge sharing and intellectual discourse. Open Water is a community of experience professionals willing to give back to young professionals to create collective success. Let me know if you're interested in joining. . Speaking of insightful content, Open Water's community is already producing thought-provoking analysis even in early ramp-up mode. I wanted to highlight this excellent Q&A with AI expert Daeil Kim who unpacks the recent AI announcements from OpenAI and Google. A few key takeaways from the article: -ChatGPT's low-latency multimodal model brings us closer to the conversational AI vision from "Her", while Google showcased their strengths in integrating AI across products. -These AI assistants open up new practical use cases like 24/7 personalized tutoring that understands our questions better through multimodal inputs. We can push the limits by making bold requests, like using the AI's computer vision to provide real-time coding instructions for replicating a website's design. -The next frontier is spatial intelligence to enable AI to learn from and operate in the physical world, paving the way for advanced humanoid robots. I encourage you to read Daeil's full insights and let me know what you think about the state of AI and its rapidly evolving capabilities. This is just the start of Open Water's mission to catalyze meaningful conversations and knowledge sharing!

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Not sure about this, AI is going to be prolific, everybody needs to get involved, be a user, be responsible. Can be likened to DEI and even ESG. At Qualcomm our CIO is working closely with legal and then it is the functions who are responsible in finding the tools that they need and then working with IT and legal to make it happen. The rise of the chief AI officer - https://on.ft.com/3vHbpxP via @FT

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Wonderful to attend the FleishmanHillard event yesterday on "Generative AI in the Newsroom” and catch up with friends and former colleagues. A stellar panel of editors provided great insights: - Aja Whitaker-Moore, Editor in Chief, Axios: GenAI can help with workflows, but we must distinguish from the commoditized content vs our top reporters/SMEs and what only they can deliver. - Cadie Thompson, Executive Editor of Business Insider: GenAI can digest meeting notes or news reports to receive a synopsis and determine if we should go deeper on particular stories. - Ryan Joe, Editor in Chief, ADWEEK: do not give these tools to junior reporters. They must first understand the journalism craft and how to effectively use Generative AI. - Francesca Barber, Executive Newsroom Director, POLITICO: lower the barrier of fear and skepticism to make the tech more accessible. But ensure responsible use and avoid overlaps of personal and work use of GenAI. - Adi Ignatius, Editor in Chief, Harvard Business Review: ChatGPT is not funny. But try asking it to reiterate points as David Sedaris! Thank you Ephraim Cohen, Caitlin Teahan and Alison McNally for hosting. #GenerativeAI #GenAI #contentcreation #media

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Join us for an important conversation next week about platform design and elections with Glenn E., Ravi Iyer, Kaili L., and Nicole Schneidman - how is tech getting in the way and/or facilitating election integrity? 🤔 https://lu.ma/59uxawc5

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Fighting misinformation can be infuriating, not to mention difficult, but there are ways to do it effectively and here are some tips from Spin Sucks.

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For marketing / communications folks in clean energy/tech, I highly recommend Akshat Rathi's book, Climate Capitalism. I just finished it, and plan to read again to take more notes. A great overview of the major tech and macroeconomic environment. Very informative and interesting! https://lnkd.in/g5EcyRzE

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What's possible when a strong purpose intersects with a powerful story? In my recent Presidio Graduate School talk, I spoke about how storytelling can turn missions into movements. Which begs another question: why are you still investing in brand comms and content with no shelf life? Contact me to find out how our LOUPE impact storytelling process can engage audiences and drive growth for your impact-driven brands, products, or programs: richardy@curtisbirch.com #sustainability #storytelling #sdgs #esg #brandstorytelling #upcycled #purposedriven #changemakers #documentary #filmmaking #storytelling #sustainablepackaging #climatesolutions #sustinablebusiness #sustainablebrands #businessforgood #triplebottomline #purpose

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Really good piece this on the lurking challenges for the technology that everyone’s talking about but many people don’t know what to do with. There’s about to be a huge bloodbath for VC-backed lightweight LLM wrappers. But also big questions for OpenAI’s business models. An Enterprise model for ChatGPT might be a thing, but that interface isn’t great for everyone and a lot of the value already freely exists in Bing.

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AI has entered the boardroom. From AI bots to predictive AI platforms, AI is helping to provide real-time insights, guide discussions, and inform decisions during board meetings. Madrona Managing Director and Clari Board Member Steve Singh: "It's crazy for a board to still get updates every 90 days with PDFs when predictive AI can spot a revenue issue two weeks into a quarter." He continued: "Soon with generative AI, agents will be working on the board's behalf, prodding a company's revenue leaders. The board will add a permanent layer of analytical value to the organization." More in the Axios article below. #RunRevenue #AI #CEOs #Boards https://lnkd.in/gHanY4G5

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Essential #AI thoughts from Fei-Fei Li. I was honored to hear her speak about AI years ago at orientation for new fellows at The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans and I never forgot her wisdom and prescience. She heads up HAI (Human-Centered AI at Stanford University. Q: What do you you think about AI’s future, what worries you the most, and what gives you hope? A: It’s not AI’s future, it’s humanity’s future. We don’t talk about electricity’s future, we don’t talk about steam’s future. At the end of the day, it is our future, our species’ future, and our civilization’s future—in the context of AI. #futureofeducation #futureofwork

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Start-up and scale-up founders, CEOs and CMOs can save themselves a lot of heartache if they assess their company's readiness for corporate communications before they bring on an expensive corp comm leader. By identifying where the requisite building blocks for success already exist, executives can develop the function in a way that impacts business results by making better hiring decisions, understanding where to expect results near and long term, and strategically planning their investments in the function. Looking for a guide to help you do this? Drop me a line. As a 25-year veteran leader who has helped a number of start-ups and scale-ups build their corporate communications departments, I can help you figure out if you are ready to add this strategic function. #CorporateCommunications #ScaleUp #StartUp #PublicRelations

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I wrote a piece for Politico on major trends buffeting the media including artificial intelligence, deepfakes, and fighting disinformation in an age of dwindling resources. The conclusion is that founders, CEOs, politicians and others in the public eye now face an exponentially increasing threat of reputational damage. In today’s media landscape, a single negative review can quickly go viral, a poorly phrased statement can trigger a global backlash and an ill-judged joke can wreck careers. While the media world’s pace of change is dizzying, the words written by businessman Warren Buffett almost a decade ago have never been more relevant: “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” Article here: https://lnkd.in/dtTNY4PU

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Great leadership from CA and Caltrans to responsibly leverage GenAI to solve real problems- like traffic safety (and more). Their approach to pilot solutions internally amongst staff before determining is a good example of ensuring these tools augment the human workforce and assessing how they are working- or not. Consistent evaluation is necessary for GenAI- it’s not “set it and forget it”. I am looking forward to seeing the outcomes of these pilots, learning key lessons from CA and ultimately scaling what works to communities nationwide. #THISisITS. Tony Tavares Toks Omishakin https://lnkd.in/ewyfvTVr

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Life often moves at a frenetic pace. The last thing our readers want or need from us is a story that tells only a piece of a jumbled picture. I’ve long been a proponent of enterprise reporting: deeper stories about why things happen the way they do. During a Quad-City Times/Dispatch-Argus newsroom vision meeting last week, I identified different approaches to reporting that may help us better serve readers: 1. A higher percentage of enterprise stories 2. Swarming high-interest stories with follow ups 3.  Providing clarity stories 4. Creating takeaways from dense reporting. Of these four, clarity stories are the least comfortable for many of us in the newsroom. We report each new development in an ongoing issue, so we don’t see the need to retell the larger story from those already-reported parts. There’s a misguided assumption that readers should be up to speed on our previous reporting.  That’s where the “clarity” comes in. Sometimes we need to step back with fresh eyes and tell the whole story in a concise or narrative format, with the result being readers who understand what happened and why.

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Four trailblazers taking on the mantle of responsible AI: Arkose Labs, ContractPodAi Meesho, and Icertis. Each company is navigating these challenges in unique ways that enhances their products and demonstrates their integrity. Learn more about how they’re doing it:  https://lnkd.in/gQPwuz3h

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For the first time in at least a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into a single organism. The process, called primary endosymbiosis, has only happened twice in the history of the Earth, with the first time giving rise to all complex life as we know it through mitochondria. The second time that it happened saw the emergence of plants. Now, an international team of scientists have observed the evolutionary event happening between a species of algae commonly found in the ocean and a bacterium. The process involves the #algae engulfing the #bacterium and providing it with nutrients, energy and protection in return for functions that it could not previously perform – in this instance, the ability to “fix” nitrogen from the air. The researchers from the US and Japan who made the #discovery said it will offer new insights into the process of #evolution, while also holding the potential to fundamentally #change #agriculture. #breakthrough #evolution #science https://lnkd.in/g56W4brU

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Arjun Prasad article answers some big questions of how generative AI should deal with ethics really an interesting read Lakshmi Narayanan Hanooman

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