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Fred Hutch biotech spinout Ozette raises $6M from Madrona, AI2, Vulcan

GeekWire

New funding: Ozette , a biotech company that last year spun out of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and was incubated at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) , has raised a $6 million seed round. It can also do comparisons across datasets to look for trends in patient responses. Ozette Photos).

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A synthetic NPR host? AI startup WellSaid Labs makes amazing ‘Planet Money’ voice clone

GeekWire

” While our efforts paled in comparison to the epic Planey Money project, we tried a more modest version of this experiment on the GeekWire Podcast a few weeks ago , using voice clones to read an AI-generated script. “He could narrate our AI generated episode. And then he will be functionally destroyed, never to be used again.”

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Razer’s first Linux laptop is here, but it’s not for gamers

The Verge

That isn’t quite changing today — but a company called Lambda is now putting Ubuntu on a souped-up version of last year’s Razer Blade 15 Advanced with Razer’s full blessing, with the aim of selling it to machine learning and artificial intelligence researchers. pound chassis. Image: Razer x Lambda.

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Four different ways of understanding AI — and its risks

Vox

Aaron Schwartz/Xinhua via Getty Images Worldviews are clashing when it comes to artificial intelligence. I sometimes think of there being two major divides in the world of artificial intelligence. One comparison I sometimes see is to cryptocurrency. So we have some improved chatbots, goes the skeptical perspective.

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Reality check: Intelligent machines and the future of the automated workforce

GeekWire

Lewis referenced a recent Wall Street Journal podcast , which reported that “55% of Americans believe companies will use AI (artificial intelligence) programs to replace people in jobs.” “I The ATM/bank teller comparison is a common example for the “don’t worry, disruption creates more jobs than it kills” crowd (e.g.,

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CIOs Need To Start To Create The New Face Of IT

The Accidental Successful CIO

In comparison, the enterprise applications that the IT department has been providing them with now look primitive in comparison. Three of these transformational technologies are robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and 3D printing. These will include robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and 3D printing.

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ChatGPT, the rise of generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

A transformer is a type of AI deep learning model that was first introduced by Google in a research paper in 2017. ChatGPT was trained with 175 billion parameters; for comparison, GPT-2 was 1.5B (2019), Google’s LaMBDA was 137B (2021), and Google’s BERT was 0.3B (2018). Learn more about Protiviti’s Artificial Intelligence Services.