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Nonprofits in Second Life: Avatar Marketing, Fundraising, and TechSoup's Plans

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I attended a meeting at the SLTechSoup Office, a discussion forum on Avatar Marketing hosted by Harvard Berkman Center , and visited a donation site for the Make A Wish Foundation. I'm pleased to say that I've perfected my notetaking techniques and am more comfortable with the multi-channel chat and IM. Except for two things.

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What Are Foundation Models?

NVIDIA AI Blog

million images, Cosmos Nemotron 34B is a leading VLM that enables the ability to query and summarize images and video from the physical or virtual world. But like transformers, the new technique soon caught fire. Trained on 355,000 videos and 2.8 The first paper to describe a diffusion model arrived with little fanfare in 2015.

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Synthesis AI raises $17M to generate synthetic data for computer vision

TechCrunch

One survey called the use of synthetic data “one of the most promising general techniques on the rise in [AI].” Through the platform, data scientists could customize the avatars’ poses as well as their hair, facial hair, apparel (e.g., ” One of Synthesis AI’s digital avatars.

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Intel thinks the metaverse will need a thousand-fold increase in computing capability

The Verge

Intel made its first statement on the metaverse on Tuesday — its first public acknowledgement of that sometimes-nebulous future of computing which promises an always connected virtual world that exists in parallel with our physical one. He says that a 1,000x increase in power is needed over our current collective computing capacity.

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Are lifelike digital humans the future of customer experience?

TechCrunch

The startup will put the funds toward enhancing its Digital Brain technology, which uses a technique called “cognitive modeling” to recreate things like the human brain’s emotional response system in order to construct autonomous animated characters. increase in conversion rate, a 2.3% Image Credits: Soul Machines.

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How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year, Alan invited me to keynote the New Media Consortium ’s virtual conference to talk about the future of social and nonprofits. It was my most memorable virtual presentation as my avatar was June Jetson and I made a flying entrance into the auditorium to the tune of the Jetson’s theme song.

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Reflections on Mixed Reality Events in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life.