Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A Brief History of Foundation Models We are in a time where simple methods like neural networks are giving us an explosion of new capabilities, said Ashish Vaswani, an entrepreneur and former senior staff research scientist at Google Brain who led work on the seminal 2017 paper on transformers.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

No hands, no brain, just a wheeled lightbulb pumping out deadly light: UV robots certainly show how limited health care automation is right now. Having a physical avatar for these visits makes a huge psychological difference, staff tell The Verge. Robots on the frontline. Image: Phoenix Children’s Hospital.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

Beck is the brain behind the risk-taker/space-maker paradigm I''ve shared here in the past. We ran with it and have since generated data about decision-making, cooperation, competition and negotiation for scientists (and also some artists) to play with. One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Designed to have a short conversation with visitors about herself, she runs on a proprietary “digital brain” and studies my expressions via webcam. When we think of the metaverse, popularly depicted as a game-like virtual environment where humans use avatars to live, work, and play, we’re often the main characters.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2022

In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about Airtable, Plaid and all your darn AI avatars. All your AI avatars. My new flex is that I don’t have an AI avatar, and I’m only a little insecure about it! The company behind these magic avatars is Lensa AI, which has unsurprisingly been climbing up the app store.

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