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It’s a Sign: AI Platform for Teaching American Sign Language Aims to Bridge Communication Gaps

NVIDIA AI Blog

The dataset which NVIDIA aims to grow to 400,000 video clips representing 1,000 signed words is being validated by fluent ASL users and interpreters to ensure the accuracy of each sign, resulting in a high-quality visual dictionary and teaching tool. Most deaf children are born to hearing parents.

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Meta-funded program teaches tweens about online exploitation

Mashable Tech

The person then threatens to make the picture public unless the victim pays them. Victims of such exploitation often believe they are messaging with another teen and eventually share a graphic or explicit image of themselves.

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Facebook’s next big AI project is training its machines on users’ public videos

The Verge

Teaching AI systems to understand what’s happening in videos as completely as a human can is one of the hardest challenges — and biggest potential breakthroughs — in the world of machine learning. And if the social network can teach its machine learning models to understand video seamlessly, who knows what they might learn?

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How student loans impact workers’ long-term career choices

Fast Company Tech

According to a recent study conducted by MissionSquare Research Institute, the debt thats carried by one in four Americans under 40 affects job-acceptance decisions for 56% of public-sector employees and 62% of those working in the private sector. When they choose to accept.

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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. Project Evident knows that some nonprofits and grant makers are hesitant to engage with AI, but AI is here, and it is not going away," said Di Troia.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] Should I Publicize the Amount of a Major Gift?

Bloomerang

Are they okay with you publicizing the gift? Not everyone wants public recognition, but it’s worth remembering giving isn’t always its own reward. Ask yourself: “What will be accomplished by publicizing the amount?” Twitter | LinkedIn | The post [ASK AN EXPERT] Should I Publicize the Amount of a Major Gift? The amount?

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What does Instacart’s supposedly delayed IPO teach us about how unicorns think?

TechCrunch

The richly valued startup was poised to become the splashiest public offering of the year in the United States, but now it appears we won’t get to see the implications of the IPO’s reception for at least a few more months. Instacart going public is notable not just due to its own corporate history.

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