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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Will companies marketing large language models every justify the enormous valuations some of these companies are now enjoying? You said then that you wanted an artificial general intelligence to exist—in fact, you said it had always been your personal motivation for working in robotics and AI. And we’re really good at that.

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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

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Gerard “Gus” Gaynor says he knew he would become an engineer when he was 7 years old, inspired by his father’s monthly Popular Mechanics magazines. We couldn’t afford to pay [US] $350 to buy a machine at that time, so we had to build our own,” he says. When the company wouldn’t let him skip the training, he quit. Paul, Minn.

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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

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One of the final products he pitched was Apple Park , the company's corporate campus in Cupertino, Calif. And he led the creation and marketing of irresistible products including the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, which spurred several companies to follow suit with similar products and marketing strategies. IEEE Spectrum article.

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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

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For a fee, people send money to friends and family, pay bills, and buy groceries using a mobile wallet app. magazine included her on its 2020 Top 100 Female Founders list. Johnson held a number of technical leadership positions in IBM offices around the world during her more than 25 years with the company. She left IBM in 2014.

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Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)

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These companies are fueled by more than US $7 billion and perhaps as much as $10 billion in startup funding. And the company Leng founded, Opener, could beat all of them by making its first deliveries—which would also be the first for any maker of an eVTOL. As of late October, the company had built at its facility in Palo Alto, Calif.,

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. And the right person was Apple founder Steven Jobs, who invented the first, hoped for the second, and told Adobe to tough out the third. Evans & Sutherland had never produced anything as complex.

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Peapod Comes Out on Earth Day '09 - GoodCleanTech

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Starting this coming Earth Day, April 22, 2009, Peapod will finally be available directly to consumers through the company web site, the first batch of orders slated to be delivered by October. But just in case non-iPod users plan to purchase one of these $12,500 babies, theres an in-dash iPod you can buy separately. is prohibited.

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