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Disney-backed Inworld raises new cash for its AI-powered virtual characters

TechCrunch

This is what we are addressing by bringing virtual characters to life with AI.” ” When crafting a character’s “brain,” customers use Inworld to tailor elements of their behavior and even cognition, such as their goals and motivations, manners of speech, knowledge and voice.

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What Are Foundation Models?

NVIDIA AI Blog

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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Meet Budley Omegamu/Sombit Mishra

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been attending the weekly Friday TechSoup meetings in Second Life and you run into the most fascinating people. Last week, I met an avatar named Budley Omegamu who turned out to be Sombit Mishra who is a Technology Associate at GlobalGiving. I didn't know Sombit until I met him - as they say - "in-world" in Second Life.

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Guest Post by Amanda Rose: Reflections on Cause Fatigue

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Recently, my best friend Alyson (www.alysonwoloshyn.com) was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. I mention this only because my life is now directly impacted by cancer in ways I could not have predicted a few months ago. I don’t have a Livestrong band on my Twitter avatar because it is the cool thing to do.

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After the pandemic, doctors want their new robot helpers to stay

The Verge

The normal busyness of hospital life has been supplemented by new complications: staff shortages, demands for personal protective equipment, and rigorous cleaning regimes to keep the virus at bay. No hands, no brain, just a wheeled lightbulb pumping out deadly light: UV robots certainly show how limited health care automation is right now.

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

TechCrunch

In these companies, we see great potential opportunities to explore transformative changes that will take our commitment of innovating for a better life to the next phase,” said LG Nova head Dr. Sokwoo Rhee, senior vice president for innovation at LG Electronics. The Metaverse. NeuroTrainer, Inc.

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The NMC Symposium for the Future: Prepping for Virtual Keynote about Nonprofits in 2020

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The 3D space where this virtual symposium will take place is a private version of the Second Life platform that Linden Labs and NMC have created, called the Hakone Project. In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. .

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