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Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated

TechCrunch

Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. There are over 77,000 people incarcerated in New York across the state and New York City correctional systems. ”

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Four investors explain why AI ethics can’t be an afterthought

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A founder recently told TechCrunch+ that it’s hard to think about ethics when innovation is so rapid: People build systems, then break them, and then edit. Some investors said they tackle this by doing due diligence on a founder’s ethics to help determine whether they’ll continue to make decisions the firm can support.

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This week in AI: Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue

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This week in AI, Amazon announced that it’ll begin tapping generative AI to “enhance” product reviews. Once it rolls out, the feature will provide a short paragraph of text on the product detail page that highlights the product capabilities and customer sentiment mentioned across the reviews. Could AI summarize those?

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INE Security Alert: The Steep Cost of Neglecting Cybersecurity Training

CIO

With cyber threats growing in sophistication and frequency, the financial implications of neglecting cybersecurity training are severe and multifaceted. As cyber threats become more sophisticated, the cost of not investing in cybersecurity training escalates exponentially,” explains Dara Warn, CEO of INE Security.

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Sesamm bags $37M to give corporates ESG insights using natural language processing

TechCrunch

Companies can access Sesamm’s flagship product, TextReveal , via several conduits, including an API that brings Sesamm’s NLP engine into their own systems. Elsewhere, private equity firms can use Sesamm for due diligence on potential acquisition or investment targets.

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Deep Science: AI adventures in arts and letters

TechCrunch

A team from the University of Washington wanted to see if a computer vision system could learn to tell what is being played on a piano just from an overhead view of the keys and the player’s hands. It requires a system that is both precise and imaginative. You might even leave a bad review online.

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Spawning lays out plans for letting creators opt out of generative AI training

TechCrunch

The legal spats between artists and the companies training AI on their artwork show no sign of abating. Generative AI models “learn” to create art, code and more by “training” on sample images and text, usually scraped indiscriminately from the web. By late April, that figure had eclipsed 1 billion.