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This fossil-fuel exec jumped to geothermal. He tells us why

October 8, 2020
Residential geothermal company Dandelion Energy yesterday announced that it’s hired a new vice president of drillings whose name is Jeremy Smith. What’s unique about Smith? The exec comes from a fossil-fuel background. From fossil fuels to geothermal Smith brings more than 18 years of experience in the natural gas and oil industries to Dandelion’s geothermal drilling operations. Before…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Adobe brings more AI-powered tools to Photoshop and Premiere Elements 2021

October 8, 2020
The 2021 versions of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements are now available, and Adobe has added a number of AI-powered features to them. Those apps are Adobe’s streamlined versions of Photoshop and Premiere, and they’re designed for beginners and folks who don’t need pro-level image- and video-editing suites. They’re standalone products that don’t require a subscription. Photoshop…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Google Assistant gets deeper app integrations as voice assistant usage skyrockets

October 8, 2020
Starting today, Google Assistant can quickly open, search, and interact with some of the most popular Android apps on the Google Play Store. To kick off its Google Assistant Developer Day conference, Google this morning announced new Assistant shortcuts across fitness, social media, payment, ride-hailing, and other categories of apps for actions like finding a ride, ordering food, and playing…
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MobileNews

NYU’s crowdsourced questions probe extent of language model bias

October 8, 2020
In a new study, researchers at New York University (NYU) found that popular language models including Google’s BERT and ALBERT and Facebook’s RoBERTa reinforce harmful race, gender, socioeconomic, religious, age, sexual, and other stereotypes. While previous research has uncovered bias in many of the same models, this latest work suggests the biases are broader in scope than originally…
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