GeekWire

JANUARY 31, 2024

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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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

Stephanie Strong is the founder and CEO of Boulder Care, an app-based addiction treatment program for those suffering from opioid use disorder. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering’s Networks and Mobile Systems Lab, Vikram Iyer is using tiny tech to solve big problems. Stephanie Strong, founder and CEO of Boulder Care.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

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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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

Generative AI is essentially a more advanced and useful version of the conventional artificial intelligence that already helps power everything from autocomplete to Siri. It uses deep learning, or algorithms that create artificial neural networks that are meant to mimic how human brains process information and learn.

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Vox

MARCH 30, 2023

In a more innocent time (2015) Google released “DeepDream,” which used Google’s artificial neural network programs — that is, artificial intelligence that’s been trained to learn in a way that mimics a human brain’s neural networks — to recognize patterns in images and make new images from them.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2023

The program serves tech-focused students in 44 high schools spread across multiple districts north of Seattle. Portia Kibble Smith, head of DEI programs and partnerships at Karat, accepts the Geeks Give Back Award at the 2023 GeekWire Awards. See this post for more background on this category.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2024

As services and technology grew, he found himself working for nonprofits all over the world, which ultimately led him to Canteen, the only charity in Australia that supports teens and young adults impacted by cancer. We’re trying everything to help young people impacted by cancer,” he says.

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GeekWire

MAY 10, 2024

Much like it has been for the past year, artificial intelligence was a recurring buzzword running through the evening, as evidenced by the number of finalists and winners seizing on the technology. The speeches: Hanako Osuga, program manager at Coding for Cancer, accepts a Geeks Give Back award for the organization.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. Hunome is an online application and tool for thought networking. Zhouying Jin.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

In a preliminary settlement filed on Friday in San Mateo Superior Court, the social network agreed to pay damages to American moderators and provide more counseling to them while they work. Facebook released a new report detailing how it uses a combination of artificial intelligence and human fact-checkers to enforce its community standards.

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Vox

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Before the collapse of FTX, Bankman-Fried put millions into scientists, companies, and nonprofits working on pandemic and bioterror prevention and risks from artificial intelligence. You’ll probably agree that human extinction is indeed bad. It’s fair and necessary to dispute the empirical assumptions behind those investments.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The problems are somewhat different on the two networks — Facebook is primarily talking about ideological diversity, where TikTok is more concerned with promoting different types of content — but I still found the distinction striking. Do social networks pull us into self-reinforcing echo chambers, or don’t they? Governing. ?

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