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DeepMind’s New AI Teaches Itself to Play Minecraft From Scratch

Singularity Hub

After learning a model of its environment, it could imagine future scenarios to improve its decision making at each step and ultimately was able to collect that elusive diamond. Learning From Experience Children naturally soak up their environment. In the limited world of Minecraft , Dreamer seemed to have that flexibility.

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This bundle teaches you how to turn your tech skills into a side hustle

Mashable Tech

Others, like ethical hacking , are a little harder to practice without a controlled environment. The courses guide you through setting up your own hacking environment with tools like Virtual Box and Kali Linux, learning to identify vulnerabilities, and even building your own tools for penetration testing.

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Nonprofits get $10 million grant from Google to expand AI

Mashable Tech

Our organization] calls this moment of emergent AI adoption in the social and education sectors 'all teach, all learn,' and we’re approaching this collaboration as a co-creation process.

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Ditch the Fear, Embrace The Magic: Leadership Lessons From A 4- And 5-Year-Old

Bloomerang

Recently, I started teaching my grandnieces, Vaitea (5) and Hoolai (4), how to swim. If not, ask yourself: what kind of environment am I creating? Leadership lessons are everywheresometimes even in a crowded YMCA pool. My sister Mahealani and my niece Hepua were in the water with us, surrounded by kids and parents splashing around.

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From training dogs to intelligent machines: Here's how reinforcement learning is teaching AI

Fast Company Tech

The reinforcement learning problem in AI is how to design agents that achieve their goals by perceiving and acting in their environments. Understanding intelligence and creating intelligent machines are grand scientific challenges of our times. The ability to learn from experience is a cornerstone

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Stack banks $2.7M to teach teens, parents about crypto

TechCrunch

While at Copper, Rush led efforts to teach children about investing, but found that replacing the word “stock” with “crypto” was driving more engagement. to teach teens, parents about crypto by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch. And, when teen users reach 18 years old, the assets transfer into their name.

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How Gen Z is shaping what meaningful work looks like for all workers

Fast Company Tech

Arthur Brooks shares, Every year I teach Harvard MBA students about happiness and its unique relationship to leadership. What Gen Z can teach In our consulting work, were frequently called in to help leaders navigate the divide between younger and older employees. This provokes a lot of anxiety about meaning.

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