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This Engineer Is Helping to Make India a Global Semiconductor Hub

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When Tushar Sharma was a young boy growing up in Jamnapaar, India, a densely populated area outside of Delhi, he never imagined that someday he would meet the country’s prime minister. Sharma did just that. His focus, he says, has been to encourage students to pursue a STEM education and to bridge the digital/education divide.

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GM’s Cadillac set to eliminate 40% of dealerships in $274M restructuring project

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While Cadillac does have the LYRIQ , which is set to roll out sometime in 2023, it knows the switch to EVs is inevitable and is modifying its infrastructure in a manner that would ease the difficult transition from gas-powered vehicles to electric ones. However, Cadillac’s real focus does not lie in the United States but in China.

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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement

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Timnit, did you decide to found a new organization because you think that the current model of AI research is broken? Your press release about the founding of DAIR mentioned that AI is often presented as inevitable, and that you want to combat that idea. Are you trying to apply the precautionary principle to AI?

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Marco Hutter Wants to Solve Robotics’ Hard Problems

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The institute is still scaling up (and the branch in Zurich has only just kicked things off), but we did spot some projects that the Boston folks have been working on, and as you can see from the clips at the top of this page, they’re looking pretty cool. How much can you tell us about what you’ll be working on at the AI Institute?

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Q&A: Marc Raibert on the Boston Dynamics AI Institute

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Marc Raibert on: Useful and Practical Robots What the Institute Will Focus On Hardware vs Software Ethics and Policy Making Research More Open The Importance of YouTube Videos Measuring Success. If we can start by looking back a little bit—what kind of company did you want Boston Dynamics to be when you founded it in 1992?

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Four Benefits of EV Charging at Your Medical Office Building

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The benefits of having electric vehicle charging stations at your medical office building or healthcare facility might surprise you. EV Charging Stations Help Your Staff Go Green The first benefit of EV charging at your medical office: you can help your staff go green. miles for people in suburban areas and 4.4

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Why Rip Off Creatives, If Generative AI Can Play Fair?

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And in that work, why have you focused specifically on computer vision? In terms of generative AI , there is growing awareness of the importance of training data being not just something you can take off the shelf without thinking carefully about where the data came from. So this ends up including a much wider range of AI.

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