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“Encouraging Women to Embrace AI: Insights from Kristine Gloria of the Aspen Institute on Embracing Curiosity in the Field”

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We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Kristine Gloria leads the Aspen Institute’s Emergent and Intelligent Technologies Initiative — the Aspen Institute being the Washington, D.C.-headquartered think tank focused on values-based leadership and policy expertise. What are some issues AI users should be aware of? What is the best way to responsibly build AI? How can investors better push for responsible AIOne specific task, which I admire Mozilla Ventures for requiring in its diligence, is an AI model card.

“Revolutionizing TV Text Input: The T9-Inspired Solution by a Startup”

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T9 — the old text input from our trusty Nokia phones from the 1990s — is one of those throwbacks. Direction 9 is a startup that is eager to introduce it to your television, so you can use the directional pad on your remote to enter text. They showed it off at CES, and… I’d be extremely surprised if it ever makes much headway. You have to focus up and down, and you can’t do blind typing,” explains Leon Chang, founder at Direction 9. It seems unlikely that they’d be willing to add 20-50% to its cost just to add a new text input as a feature.