🛫 Facial Recognition at Airports, Tech's SF Return, Women in AI
Today’s pick
Facial Recognition: Coming Soon to an Airport Near You. On a recent Thursday morning in Queens, travelers streamed through the exterior doors of La Guardia Airport's Terminal C. Some were bleary-eyed — most hefted briefcases — as they checked bags and made their way to the security screening lines. By Christine Chung via The New York Times
𝕏: Does the new biometric scanner read a mark on your forehead? Sort of like Clear, or the WorldCoin evil orb, or the Whole Foods palm payment system?- Joe Allen (@JOEBOTxyz)
Tech Leaders Fled San Francisco During the Pandemic. Now, They’re Coming Back. Founders and investors who moved to Miami and elsewhere are returning to a boom in artificial intelligence and an abundance of tech talent. In 2020, venture capitalist Keith Rabois urged startup founders to join him in ditching San Francisco for Miami, praising the city’s safety, lower taxes and tech-friendly mayor. By Berber Jin via WSJ
𝕏: Keep accelerating, San Francisco - Garry Tan 陈嘉兴 — e/acc (@garrytan)
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Women In AI: Irene Solaiman, head of global policy at Hugging Face. To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. By Kyle Wiggers via TechCrunch
𝕏: Spotlight on my amazing coworker and friend, @IreneSolaiman "Have a support group whose success is your success" <-- 100%!! - MMitchell (@mmitchell_ai)
We Tested an AI Tutor for Kids. It Struggled With Basic Math. Khanmigo, a ChatGPT-powered bot, made frequent calculation errors during a Journal reporter’s test. Just a few months after ChatGPT was launched publicly, educator Sal Khan made a provocative claim during a widely viewed TED Talk: “We’re at the cusp of using AI for probably the biggest positive transformation that education has ever seen.” That would happen, he said, “by giving every student on the planet an artificially intelligent but amazing personal tutor.” By Matt Barnum via WSJ
𝕏: It’s a remarkable trend that the rise of LLMs means that computers have gotten dumber. While they’ve gotten better at understanding what we’re asking, they now can’t be trusted to do basic math or answer factual questions. One step forward but how many steps backwards? - Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life)
This Company Says Conversational AI Will Kill Apps and Websites. I might have inadvertently insulted Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor when I interviewed them about their new AI startup last week. Their new company, Sierra, is developing AI-powered agents to “elevate the customer experience” for big companies. By Steven Levy via WIRED
𝕏: All we want, really, is just to talk to a human being who's not under pressure from their employer to sell us things, constrain us to a perfunctory time slot, or discourage us from unsubscribing. Removing the humanity from a conversation isn't the big win you think it is. - Dr Stuart Woolley (@FractalDoctor)
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