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Four Videos to Consider - On Artificial Intelligence 
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Four Videos to Consider - On Artificial Intelligence 

Comments by Max Tegmar (physicist and AI researcher at MiT),AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li (Stanford professor and Co-Director of the Human-Centered AI Institute), Dr. Tina Eliassi-Rad (computer scientist and professor at Northeastern University), Marina Danilevsky (senior research scientist at IBM.)

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“Lifting the Fog” on San Francisco Government
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“Lifting the Fog” on San Francisco Government

Last week, the San Francisco Civil Grand Jury released "Lifting the Fog" On Budgets, Innovation, Silos, and More", that identifies the need to improve budget oversight, increase interdepartmental cooperation and provide clarity on the government’s function and structure.

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On Technology and the Olympic Games
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On Technology and the Olympic Games

Comments from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Vincent Strubel, director general of ANSSI (France’s cybersecurity agency), and efforts about surveillance systems from Videtics, Orange Business, ChapsVision, Wintics

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Views on Creativity, Entertainment and AI
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Views on Creativity, Entertainment and AI

Comments from Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos (NY Times interview) and Dawn Ostroff, board member of Paramount Global and Mattel, in her article “Memo to Hollywood: AI Is a Threat — And an Opportunity

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On AI and Gene Editing
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On AI and Gene Editing

Last week, Profluent, a start-up based in Berkeley, CA, announced the release of an AI-created gene editor and its uses its OpenCRISPR uses “AI that learned from massive scale sequence and biological context to generate millions of diverse CRISPR-like proteins

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Hopeful Views on Artificial Intelligence
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Hopeful Views on Artificial Intelligence

Comments by Yann LeCun (Chief AI Scientist for Facebook AI Research, Professor at New York University focusing on Data Science and Mathematical Sciences) from an interview with Lex Fridman.
 

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