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A group behind Stable Diffusion wants to open source emotion-detecting AI
In 2019, Amazon upgraded its Alexa assistant with a feature that enabled it to detect when a customer was likely frustrated — and respond with proportionately more sympathy. If a customer asked Alexa to play a song and it queued up the wrong one, for example, and then the customer said “No, Alexa” in an […]
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OpenAI, Google and an “digital anthropologist”: the UN forms a high level board to explore AI governance
The halls of power are waking up to the potentials and pitfalls of artificial intelligence. The big question will be how much of an impact they will have on the march of progress if (and when) there are mis-steps. Yesterday, the United Nations announced a new AI advisory board — 38 people from across government, […]
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Byterat nabs $4M seed round to collect and analyze data for battery labs
Like many entrepreneurs, Byterat’s founders realized that the challenges they had faced themselves in the lab were a business opportunity.
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Aether’s $49M Series A deck
This pitch deck makes for some really interesting reading and storytelling, so let’s dive in and see if we can spot what happened and how.
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