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AI doesn’t rate in Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends report

Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends 2018 report landed today with a loud thud — it’s 294 slides. That’s an order of magnitude larger than the 25…

2 min readMay 30, 2018

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AI doesn’t rate in Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends report

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Blaise Zerega

Opinion: Google’s use of AI to mimic humans is unethical and bad UX (updated)

Google CEO Sundar Pichai took a giant leap in the wrong direction yesterday. At his company’s I/O developer conference, Pichai wowed the…

4 min readMay 9, 2018

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Opinion: Google’s use of AI to mimic humans is unethical and bad UX (updated)

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Foundation: A new documentary series about startup life at Station F

“A start-up is an organization that is looking for a repeatable business model, that’s also scalable,” declares Etienne, a 24-year old…

3 min readApr 4, 2018

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Foundation: A new documentary series about startup life at Station F

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Blaise Zerega

Facebook puts the brakes on new Messenger bots — for now

Here’s the latest consequence of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal: the social network has paused its review of new apps and…

2 min readMar 27, 2018

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Facebook puts the brakes on new Messenger bots — for now

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Blaise Zerega

.AI and .IO: URLs at the intersection of colonialism and hype (and Shakespeare)

If you’re starting an artificial intelligence company, then you’re likely considering .ai as your URL. What else could be better at showing…

4 min readMar 23, 2018

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.AI and .IO: URLs at the intersection of colonialism and hype (and Shakespeare)

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Blaise Zerega

The chatbot doctor will see you now

Depending on your needs, getting advice from a lawyer can set you back $500 an hour. It’s a fee structure optimized for one-on-one…

4 min readMar 19, 2018

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The chatbot doctor will see you now

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Blaise Zerega

Machine learning or AI? What Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft tell investors

Microsoft calls it “artificial intelligence.” Google refers to it as “machine learning.” The “it” here is the biggest technology…

2 min readMar 14, 2018

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Machine learning or AI? What Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft tell investors

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Voice cloning in 3.7 seconds. But why?

Neural networks can now take just a few seconds of your speech and generate entirely new audio samples. What’s more, these synthetic voices…

2 min readMar 2, 2018

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Voice cloning in 3.7 seconds. But why?

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Want facial recognition? First, work on racial recognition (updated)

Leading facial recognition algorithms are right 99 percent of the time — for white men, that is. The software performs worse the darker…

3 min readFeb 22, 2018

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Want facial recognition? First, work on racial recognition (updated)

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Blaise Zerega

Introducing the All Turtles Podcast! Episode 1: The mythology of the garage

From All Turtles, a weekly podcast that examines entrepreneurship and product development through the lens of an AI startup studio. Join…

2 min readOct 31, 2017

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Introducing the All Turtles Podcast! Episode 1: The mythology of the garage

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Blaise Zerega

Blaise Zerega

Editor in Chief at All Turtles| VentureBeat, FORA.tv, Conde Nast Portfolio, WIRED, Red Herring, Forbes I Michener Fellow at Texas Center for Writers| @BeeZee

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