Bill Duane

We are announcing the availability of Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus on Amazon Bedrock, the most intelligent Claude 3 model, with best-in-market performance on highly complex tasks. It can navigate open-ended prompts and sight-unseen scenarios with remarkable fluency and human-like understanding, leading the frontier of general intelligence.

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Essential #AI thoughts from Fei-Fei Li. I was honored to hear her speak about AI years ago at orientation for new fellows at The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans and I never forgot her wisdom and prescience. She heads up HAI (Human-Centered AI at Stanford University. Q: What do you you think about AI’s future, what worries you the most, and what gives you hope? A: It’s not AI’s future, it’s humanity’s future. We don’t talk about electricity’s future, we don’t talk about steam’s future. At the end of the day, it is our future, our species’ future, and our civilization’s future—in the context of AI. #futureofeducation #futureofwork

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“The bigger questions aren't going to be solved by the climate and nature folks or the AI folks all by themselves. The biggest opportunity is for us to finally get to a point where we're building collaborative teams that are able to tackle the big problems that our world is facing.” On Tuesday, I was invited by the Bezos Earth Fund to speak on a panel about the applications of AI in the climate and nature space. I was joined by Dr. Amen Ra Mashariki, the Director of AI and Data Strategies at the Bezos Earth Fund and Patrick Beukema, Artificial Intelligence Engineer at AI2. We covered topics like high-impact but overlooked AI opportunities, the challenges of using AI to address environmental problems, and existing barriers to scalability and implementation. If you’d like to hear our conversation, you can watch a recording of the panel here: https://lnkd.in/gN2Xd7f7. And don’t forget to submit a proposal to the Grand Challenge – the deadline is July 30. Learn more about the $100 million dollar initiative at aiforclimateandnature.org.

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Join panelists Giovanni Cacciamani (University of Southern California), Andrew Hufton (Cell Press), Bahar Mehmani (Elsevier), and Lisa Rasmussen (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) as we discuss what actually happens when a researcher uploads content to ChatGPT, how to peer review research that incorporates generative AI in its methods, and whether there are any appropriate applications of AI in the peer review process. #ElsevierTogether #GenAI

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As Chief EQ Evangelist at Amazon, I have heard many leaders tell me that they have "crazy work lives" and they are "constantly distracted." Have you felt this way? Here is a simple—yet very effective—way to deal with this. If you’re like me, you have a very long To Do list that never seems to get shorter. That’s the life we live in this fast-paced world of techno-work! Yet that is actually okay…as long as we get the most important things done. We have this saying at Amazon that we need to “ruthlessly prioritize." Whatever your feeling is about the word “ruthless,” we need to prioritize in a way that is often hard to do. Why? Reality number 1: There might be 100 good things we can do in a day, but we only have time to do 5 of them. Reality number 2: We can't make everyone happy all the time. So what are we to do? There different ways to accomplish this (each person needs to find what works for them), but one thing is for sure: make sure you know what the Most Important Thing is. That’s MIT for short—so you should adMIT it, subMIT it, and comMIT it! If all else fails, you got that one thing done. You may not have been perfect, but it's not a bad day. Read on to learn a technique that can help you accomplish this. https://lnkd.in/gJTcef4s Do you use this technique (or something like it)? What is something you do to be more effective and successful with your day? I'd love to hear in the comments. #productivity #gettingthingsdone #prioritization #todolist #beatdistraction #effective #success

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latest edition explores implications around: (1) making sense of the rapid displacement of startups and “the best model” rat race, (2) how “artifacts of humanity” and Content Credentials will become a human flex of sorts… https://lnkd.in/ecGZKMvr

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State, local and education customers are getting an AI boost! 🧠 Google Public Sector's Amanda Stange discussed transformative AI applications in a State Scoop podcast at Google Cloud Next. 🚀 From climate insights to disaster response systems, Google is addressing real-world challenges. The Pacific West stands out with its innovative use of AI. Plus, Google's Gemini AI is streamlining government workplaces. ⏱️ #GoogleCloud #AI #googleforgov #GoogleCloudNext

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The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled, and we all need to take note. With so much happening in tech, it can be easy for a story like this to get lost and underplayed. But this one has big implications for the future of research into platform abuse. SIO's work will continue in other forms, which is great, but the optics of this decision are not. Sadly, the message that this shutdown sends is that litigation is an effective method of silencing academic research. Organizations working to better our online lives through research should not have to live in fear of being litigated to death. This blatant use of the law to punish and shut down critics needs to end. (See also: Elon Musk's lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate. https://lnkd.in/ggVCmNBj.) https://lnkd.in/g3yfRrNV #trustandsafety #internetresearch #stanfordinternetobservatory #techpolicy #tech #contentmoderation

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Tuesday at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity begins with Razorfish announcing R-Index, a data measurement solution in collaboration with Google Cloud. From Sisi Zhang, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Razorfish: “What sets R-Index apart is its unique ability to measure brand sentiment and equity among consumers, closing the gap between complexity and clarity for brands and driving more relevance for consumers based on actual needs.” More details here: https://lnkd.in/e_TDWP6j #Cannes2024 #CannesLions #data #consumersentiment #brandperformance

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Listen up #Founders: Get your applications ready for the Google for Startups Accelerator Climate Change program! The 10-week program will support startups with Google resources, mentorship, and more. Check out the details and apply today: https://lnkd.in/g_7daURH #AcceleratedWithGoogle

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Join the ATARC launch of the Generative AI Working Group with a virtual meeting on Wednesday June 26th at 12:00 PM EST! Please email the working group team at workinggroups@atarc.org to receive an invitation. Join us at our Generative AI Working Group kickoff meeting, where we seek to leverage industry and government experience with the procurement and deployment of Generative AI capabilities to mitigate business risk, improve employee productivity, and enhance the quality of the customer experience of #government services. The working group will explore four areas in the Generative #AI landscape:(1) Governance, (2) Human Capital, (3) Procurement, Planning, and Piloting, and (4) Effective Use of Generative AI. Our working group is lead by: -Government Chair: Frank Indiviglio, NOAA -Government Vice Chair: Nathan Manzotti, GSA -Carahsoft Chair: Michael Adams More information about the working group can be found here - https://ow.ly/SKtY50S84iQ We are looking forward to having you join us!

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Here’s my just-released podcast interview with Jordan Harbinger about my new book and about what the intersecting AI, genetics, and biotechnology revolutions mean for the future of life. #AI #technology #biotechnology

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A really practical guide to LLMs is now available! Learn what to do, what to avoid, from prompting to RAG, to fine-tuning, and evaluation. Definitively worth reading. https://lnkd.in/dCC6uKjs

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Be part of the solution. So many of our systems are created by and for those with the most powerful voices, based on assumptions about the world and those who don't look like them. Example: 2/3rds of federal spending on housing is in the form of interest deduction that benefit folks with resources. 1/3 goes to those who really need it. Diana Smith and Jesús Gerena bust some of those myths and make some great suggestions about what we can do. This is about power and money and the value of sending and spending it at the community level.

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A topic near and dear to me - and MDB is leading Climate Action with Technology! 🌱 Discover how MongoDB Atlas empowers Ambee's advanced AI and ML models to drive sustainable solutions. 👇 https://lnkd.in/ev8YKqsH

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The future comes in steps not in ramps 🪜 Interesting interview in TechCrunch with Rodney Brooks, Professor of Robotics Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, my alma mater. Link in comments. He says of LLMs that when people see an AI do something, they often project that it will perform other similar tasks just as well - which is often wrong - because they judge it like they would a human, and that comparison doesn't hold up. This is a real problem in AI strategy because it can easily lead to unrealistic expectations and misguided decisions about the deployment and capabilities of AI systems. And it’s not just in parallel domains that this problem exists. It’s also future generations. Moore’s Law does not always apply. Just because your system is at a certain level now does not mean it will definitely get better next year. So, either spread your bets over a range of outcomes, or be prepared to pivot quickly and adapt your strategy as new developments occur.

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