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This week in AI: Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue

TechCrunch

This week in AI, Amazon announced that it’ll begin tapping generative AI to “enhance” product reviews. Once it rolls out, the feature will provide a short paragraph of text on the product detail page that highlights the product capabilities and customer sentiment mentioned across the reviews. Could AI summarize those?

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Glass rethinks the smartphone camera through an old-school cinema lens

TechCrunch

Films weren’t always widescreen. Originally they were more likely to be approximately the shape of a 35mm film frame, for obvious reasons. If you matted out the top and bottom, you could project a widescreen image, which people liked — but you were basically just zooming in on a part of the film, which you paid for in detail.

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Sequoia picks its horse in the consumer carbon offset market, leading a $2.5 million round for Joro

TechCrunch

The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on the journey that would lead her to launch Joro , the Sequoia-backed startup that monitors consumer spending to offer tips on how to offset and reduce a user’s carbon footprint. “Systems are made of people. Like us,” Pal wrote in a blog post.

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Deploy a Clojure web application to AWS using Terraform

CircleCI

You may need to use a search engine for instructions on how to install SSH if you don’t already have it as it’s dependent on your operating system. Then change the Dockerfile in the film ratings web application project to read like so: FROM openjdk:8u181-alpine3.8 Feel free to review the code at your leisure. wait-for-it.sh

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Maximizing Network Metadata Value

Kentik

Making Flow Records a Force for Good on Your Network. As highlighted in the film “Zero Dark Thirty,” for example, the CIA used mobile phone call records to understand the existence, relationships, and movement of key Al Qaeda players, and eventually put those pieces together to effect the capture of Osama bin Laden.

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#742 My Body, My Pixels: A Deep Dive on Digital Autonomy with Todd Zywicki, Professor of Law at George Mason University

Modern CTO

He served as Co-Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review from 2006-2017 and as Editor from 2001-2002. He received his JD from the University of Virginia, where he was executive editor of the Virginia Tax Review and John M. In 2009, Professor Zywicki was the recipient of the Institute for Humane Studies 2009 Charles G.

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Customer Experience is a Team Sport

IDC

CX improvement must become a top initiative for CMOs or marketing will be the proverbial canary in the coal mine – the first to be blamed if the pipeline erodes due to customers’ poor experience. Behind the scenes is a massive support system. A film production company assembles a tiger team to produce a movie.

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