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Seattle-area mentoring nonprofit with a global reach adds generative AI to toolkits for job seekers

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GMI Photo) A Seattle-area nonprofit helping disadvantaged job seekers around the world is adding generative artificial intelligence to the toolkit for its participants. The program is conducted virtually through video conferences. So Browning created the initiative, which launched in 2019. Click on image to enlarge.

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Goodbill raises $2M and expands customer base to unearth and challenge medical billing errors

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But the platform ultimately caught the attention of larger companies that opt to directly pay for the healthcare of their employees rather than purchasing health insurance plans over which they have less control — a practice called self-funding. RELATED: ‘The darkest, most bottomless pit in healthcare’: Goodbill raises $3.4M

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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

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— Graham Sheldon , former corporate vice president of product for Microsoft Teams, is now chief product officer of UiPath, an artificial intelligence and automation company. — Seattle biomedical research nonprofit Sage Bionetworks appointed Luca Foschini as president. Graham Sheldon. LinkedIn Photo).

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Tech Moves: Convoy vet joins Xembly; Seattle climate firm hires Goldman Sachs exec; and more

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(Xembly Photo) — Ziad Ismail is now chief operating officer of Xembly , a Seattle startup that offers an artificial intelligence “chief of staff” designed to automate tedious tasks such as meeting notes, scheduling, to-do lists and more. She was previously vice president of policy and programs at the Washington, D.C.

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Tech Moves: Flying Fish adds principal; Tanium names new CEO; and more

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Flying Fish focuses on pre-seed and seed investments in artificial intelligence and machine learning. — Healthcare analytics software company Advata hired Brian Taylor as chief revenue officer. Vivek Ganesan , previously the startup’s executive vice president of engineering, replaced him.

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10 important questions about the promise and pitfalls of AI

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Melba Ayco (right), founder of Northwest Tap Connection, speaks about the innovative qualities of tap music at an event focused on artificial intelligence at MOHAI on Thursday in Seattle. GeekWire Photos / Taylor Soper) Artificial intelligence is already changing the world.

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The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity

Vox

Stephen Hawking has said , “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” So here’s the big picture on how artificial intelligence might pose a catastrophic danger, in nine questions: 1) What is AI? To play chess, they programmed in heuristics about chess.