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Tech accelerator for Washington and Oregon startups encourages underserved applicants

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Photo courtesy of Devon Horace) RAIN Catalysts , a Pacific Northwest-based nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship for underrepresented groups, is accepting applications for its first tech accelerator. The free and virtual 10-week program, funded by the U.S. Devon Horace, director of the RAIN Tech Accelerator.

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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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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

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OpenAI has landed billions of dollars more funding from Microsoft to continue its development of generative artificial intelligence tools such as Dall-E 2 and ChatGPT. And as an investor it can expect some return on its capital, although this will be limited by OpenAI’s status as a capped-profit company governed by a nonprofit.

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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.

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New nonpartisan AI nonprofit TrueMedia, led by Oren Etzioni, is making a political deepfake detector

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A new nonprofit, nonpartisan technology organization called TrueMedia is developing an AI-powered tool to detect deepfake videos, photos, and audio, aiming to combat political disinformation in the leadup to the 2024 elections. The plan, in essence, is to use AI to fight AI.

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The West is testing out a lot of shiny new military tech in Ukraine

Vox

Schmidt traveled to Ukraine not just as a former tech CEO, but as a billionaire investor in military technology startups who has served on influential federal boards advising the US government on adapting more artificial intelligence. The use of artificial intelligence in war is incredibly controversial, but undeniably advancing.

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If it doesn’t take our jobs, AI could make work better

Vox

He was recently granted the additional title of head of generative AI at Stern, and is helping develop an AI initiative for Stern’s MBA program so students, faculty, and administrators can become comfortable with AI tools in the workplace. The truth is we don’t know exactly how artificial intelligence technologies will impact work.

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