Simone Ross
scr10.bsky.social
Simone Ross
@scr10.bsky.social
Once upon a time, Tech Curator @TED, Co-founded Techonomy.
I get a kick out of this Bill Gates interview w. #ai rockstar
Yejin Choi. Not bc of the reference to her #TEDTalk, but bc she introduced him to Jamiroquai 🤣

Also, BG has a podcast? Did not know that.

www.gatesnotes.com/Podcast
Unconfuse Me
My latest podcast is all about learning something new.
www.gatesnotes.com
November 17, 2023 at 5:20 PM
AI, AI, AI, all the time, everywhere, can't escape it...should we worry? should we not? It's coming for us!! 😱 Or is it?

Here's Hugging Face's Sasha Luccioni, on why we shouldn't let existential threats distract us from current, real harms!

www.ted.com/talks/sasha_...
Sasha Luccioni: AI is dangerous, but not for the reasons you think
AI won't kill us all — but that doesn't make it trustworthy. Instead of getting distracted by future existential risks, AI ethics researcher Sasha Luccioni thinks we need to focus on the technology'...
www.ted.com
November 3, 2023 at 5:37 PM
#TEDWomen next wk. Last time Emma Hart talked abt self-assembling robots (send a box of parts to the bottom of the ocean, or to Mars, let them do their thing)
www.ted.com/talks/emma_h...
This yr, Sasha Luccioni/AI, Ruha Benjamin/USTOPIA, Karinna Grant/digital fashion, Dyhia Belhabib/maritime crime.
Emma Hart: Self-assembling robots and the potential of artificial evolution
What if robots could build and optimize themselves -- with little to no help from humans? Computer scientist Emma Hart is working on a new technology that could make "artificial evolution" possible. S...
www.ted.com
October 5, 2023 at 9:27 PM
A big week for lists...and (as always seems the case these days) a big week for #AI.

time.com/collection/t...
The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023
Here’s who made the 2023 TIME100 AI list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence.
time.com
September 14, 2023 at 5:14 PM
Time to start posting here...

Excited this is finally up! Bilawal Sidhu answered my random DM 2 days BEFORE TED started! Some spkrs had 5 wks or 5 mths. He jumped in w 5 DAYS. A lot has happened in the space btw April and now, but he's always on the cutting edge.

www.ted.com/talks/bilawa...
August 31, 2023 at 4:37 PM