Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

Of course, we’d have to focus on local language content. While English might be very useful in Nairobi, Swahili would be the language needed in rural Kenya. Andrew’s challenge wasn’t an empty one: his team could measure the effectiveness of interventions we might try and see how well they work.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

It’s often said that large language models (LLMs) along the lines of OpenAI’s ChatGPT are a black box, and certainly, there’s some truth to that. Like the brain, they’re made up of “neurons,” which observe some specific pattern in text to influence what the overall model “says” next.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 22, 2025

You have DMs from team members asking for information. Sometimes, it can be helpful to take the language of envisioning more literally. The power of sketches and diagrams comes from being able to use space as an element of your thinking to engage the massive amount of brain real estate devoted to vision more deeply.

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Posted by Jason Wei and Yi Tay, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team The field of natural language processing (NLP) has been revolutionized by language models trained on large amounts of text data. Overall, we present dozens of examples of emergent abilities that result from scaling up language models.

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Posted by Shunyu Yao, Student Researcher, and Yuan Cao, Research Scientist, Google Research, Brain Team Recent advances have expanded the applicability of language models (LM) to downstream tasks. On the other hand, recent work uses pre-trained language models for planning and acting in various interactive environments (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Cognixion, a startup designing an intuitive brain-monitoring headset and interface for people with physical disabilities, has raised a $12M A round to pursue its accessibility ambitions. Cognixion’s brain-monitoring headset enables fluid communication for people with severe disabilities. Image Credits: Cognixion.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

But, Don Draper and the team at Mad Men probably would not approve. Eliza was a natural language processing program created to explore the dynamics of conversation between humans and machines. How hard is it to add a bot or two to your team? Pick the Bot’s Brain AI powered chatbots learn from user interactions.

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.orgSource

APRIL 29, 2024

“Like any new hire, you should have an idea of how this addition to the team will work. Mini Code, Multiple Connections “There is a tendency to think of large language models as massive programs,” David said. Through exposure and feedback, it builds a deeper understanding of language. “AI What are AI’s strengths?

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Our teams are exploring topics across the physical and natural sciences. Using machine learning to unlock mysteries in biology Many of our researchers are fascinated by the extraordinary complexity of biology, from the mysteries of the brain, to the potential of proteins, and to the genome, which encodes the very language of life.

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Engadget

APRIL 22, 2025

There were far too many icons at the bottom of the screen and my brain crumbled at the sight of them. Ahead of my hands-on time with Stadium, I asked game director Aaron Keller how the Overwatch 2 team designed the mode to avoid making it feel too overwhelming and how the developers hoped to ease players into Stadium.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Google has fired Margaret Mitchell, co-lead of the ethical AI team, after she used an automated script to look through her emails in order to find evidence of discrimination against her coworker Timnit Gebru. Mitchell’s firing comes one day after Google announced a reorganization to its AI teams working on ethics and fairness.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Headspace and Netflix are teaming up for a new show on meditation | Netflix. Helping people relax their brains has been big business during the pandemic, with downloads for Calm and Headspace surging. It will be subtitled and dubbed in 30 languages. Just look how calm that little yellow blob creature looks in the trailer.

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InfoWorld

JANUARY 5, 2024

Created by the Google Brain team and initially released to the public in 2015, TensorFlow is an open source library for numerical computation and large-scale machine learning. TensorFlow also provides libraries for many other languages, although Python tends to dominate. To read this article in full, please click here

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

They said transformer models , large language models (LLMs), vision language models (VLMs) and other neural networks still being built are part of an important new category they dubbed foundation models. Language models have a wide range of beneficial applications for society, the researchers wrote.

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The Verge

APRIL 6, 2021

Samy Bengio, who oversaw the ethical AI team prior to a reorganization in February , is leaving to pursue other opportunities, according to Bloomberg. Bengio was a strong advocate of star AI ethics researchers Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, who previously co-led the ethical AI team. His last day will be April 28th.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Another paper on using AI to understand foreign languages “softened a reference to how the Google Translate product was making mistakes,” Reuters wrote. Employees who want to evaluate Google’s own services for bias are asked to consult with the legal, PR, and policy teams first. The change came in response to a request from reviewers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 12, 2006

The program focuses on mainly teaching a core vocabulary of sight words in the the desired language, so that adults are able read the local newspaper. TCS has built this curriculum in a handful of Indian languages, and I'm looking forward to receiving a CD with several of these so that I can try my hand at this!

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Posted by Jason Wei and Yi Tay, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team In recent years, language models (LMs) have become more prominent in natural language processing (NLP) research and are also becoming increasingly impactful in practice. We apply UL2R to PaLM and call the resulting new language model U-PaLM.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

She was told that a brain tumor was pressing on her optic nerve and may cause her to become blind. Viji has set up partnerships with several noted publishers including Seasons Publishing, based in Chennai, India and Sahitya Akademy which publishes award-winning titles in 15 local languages.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 13, 2025

Published on March 13, 2025 7:18 PM GMT We study alignment audits systematic investigations into whether an AI is pursuing hidden objectivesby training a model with a hidden misaligned objective and asking teams of blinded researchers to investigate it. As a testbed, we train a language model with a hidden objective.

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The Next Web

MARCH 30, 2013

But a startup founder is not necessarily a graphic designer, and entrepreneurs don’t always speak the same language as their design teams (or vice versa). It’s hard to improve design skills without having an appreciation for, and grasp of, the language of design. Wade Foster , Zapier. Brian Moran, Get 10,000 Fans.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

The immigrant entrepreneur would soon learn himself that crowdsourcing, language and a willingness to adapt and ignore critics could change the face of an industry forever. Inspired and full of immigrant grit, von Ahn and a team led by his then-adviser Manuel Blum created a nifty little test that could distinguish between bots and humans.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

. “Tellius is an AI-driven decision intelligence platform, and what we do is we combine machine learning — AI-driven automation — with a Google-like natural language interface, so combining the left brain and the right brain to enable business teams to get insights on the data,” Khanna told me.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

OpenAI proposes new moderation technique: OpenAI claims that it’s developed a way to use GPT-4, its flagship generative AI model, for content moderation — lightening the burden on human teams. Elsewhere, we have some interesting cross-pollination between brain science and AI. Well, it’s not quite this simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

One of the project tasks is to develop a multilingual online learning community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices. For context, read my earlier post ). I immediately starting playing around with it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

However, technology is transforming innovation at its core and our team at Benetech does quite well in leveraging this “innovation at warp speed” for social good. Human Rights Enrique Piracés Major milestones are the norm this year for our Human Rights team. Don’t get me wrong: I love writing my updates. million grant from the U.S.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

Neuroscientists would tell you that the brain processes facts and stories differently. Your brain naturally becomes more skeptical when you hear facts first. Your brain gets absorbed in the story and it drops its guard. That’s why every culture uses storytelling to pass down vital traditions and values.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

based AI startup that has developed speech technology that translates people’s voices into other languages and is already being used in the video and television industry, has raised £8 million in funding. Most of the world’s video and audio content is shackled to a single language,” says Papercup co-founder and CEO Shemen.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Being able to share drawings with his child may have been an initial motivation for Qin, but he also wanted to build a tool for connecting his work documents in a kind of internal web that could be shared across any device, either for an individual or a team of users. “I The idea is so compelling that Qin has raised $4.1

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 22, 2012

From the realistic and pragmatic to the hypothetical, members of the YEC have technology on the brain in 2012 — to improve their lives, make the office a little brighter and update “business as usual” while they’re at it. Leandro Margulis , Impulsa Business Accelerator. The Emperor 200. Neil Thanedar , LabDoor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Harvey was founded by Winston Weinberg, a former securities and antitrust litigator at law firm O’Melveny & Myers, and Gabriel Pereyra, previously a research scientist at DeepMind, Google Brain (another of Google’s AI groups) and Meta AI. But Pereyra insists that this isn’t the case.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Six years later, a new team claims to have cracked the code to a universal AI assistant — or at least to have gotten a little bit closer. But the team insists that their technology is far more sophisticated than what RPA vendors like Automation Anywhere and UiPath offer today. ” It’s lofty stuff. .”

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The Next Web

MARCH 17, 2013

Coming up with a name requires a lot of brain power and creative sparks. Try google translate to look at other languages and make sure that the names you find are not offensive for other cultures. Get team and external input. Get team and external input. Involving your team can be a good idea if done right.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 15, 2020

Video calls are a lot more straining on the brain than any face-to-face conversation. We’re having to work harder to communicate because it’s harder to process non-verbal cues like subtle facial expressions, tone of voice, or body language. Give yourself brain breaks. Why are video calls so draining?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

First, “a human brain can’t assimilate all this data,” Benhamou said. Starting from there, Resilience wants to become a full-stack software solution for cancer treatment for both the medical team and patients. The startup is already putting together a data science team. Cancer treatment facilities face three issues.

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DataRobot

JULY 6, 2021

The Behavioural Insights Team, also known unofficially as the “Nudge Unit,” was founded by the UK government in 2010 to use behavioral science to make public policies and services more effective. The Behavioural Insights Team ran an experiment, testing four variations to the language used in reminder letters on a trial group.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Posted by Xingyou (Richard) Song, Research Scientist, and Chansoo Lee, Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Google Vizier is the de-facto system for blackbox optimization over objective functions and hyperparameters across Google, having serviced some of Google’s largest research efforts and optimized a wide range of products (e.g.,

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