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Blueprint for the Future of AI in 2024: Maximizing Potential and Mitigating Workplace Hazards

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While it has positively impacted productivity and efficiency in the workplace, AI has also presented a number of emerging risks for businesses. At the same time, however, nearly half (48%) said they enter company data into AI tools not supplied by their business to aid them in their work. This rapid integration of generative AI tools at work presents ethical, legal, privacy, and practical challenges, creating a need for businesses to implement new and robust policies surrounding generative AI tools. AI use and governance: Risks and challengesDeveloping a set of policies and standards now can save organizations from major headaches down the road. The previously mentioned Harris Poll found that 64% perceive AI tool usage as safe, indicating that many workers and organizations could be overlooking risks.

“Revolutionizing Robot Training: Google’s Groundbreaking Methods Utilizing Video and Extensive Language Models”

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Google’s DeepMind Robotics researchers are one of a number of teams exploring the space’s potential. The newly announced AutoRT is designed to harness large foundational models, to a number of different ends. In a standard example given by the DeepMind team, the system begins by leveraging a Visual Language Model (VLM) for better situational awareness. A large language model, meanwhile, suggests tasks that can be accomplished by the hardware, including its end effector. LLMs are understood by many to be the key to unlocking robotics that effectively understand more natural language commands, reducing the need for hard-coding skills.

“Cracking the Code: LPs in a Downturn Economy”

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Emerging fund managers have had a tough time these past few years, and there is no telling when it will get better. Her firm just closed a $23.4 million Fund II after two years of fundraising. Wilkinson has no plans to raise a third fund anytime soon but has some advice for those who are, given the looming uncertainty in the venture market. After 300 conversations with institutional LPs, I had an aha moment in which I realized that I did not want to primarily work with institutions in the future. Individual investors are very different from institutional investors in all the right ways, in my opinion.