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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Picks and Pieces: Removing barriers to employment
Check out Jobs for the Future (JFF). Curated this information about removing some barriers to productive employment. State & local policymakers are expanding access to #qualityjobs for people with barriers to employment in 3 ways: supporting place-based hiring...
Picks and pieces: Interesting AI tools to help productivity
Compiled by Anurag Agarwal. Some of these would require a subscription/license. Names are included in the replies. AI is getting BETTER!Here are 6 AI tools that can help you get work done 2X faster[bookmark for later use] pic.twitter.com/3KDwgD3WQq— Anurag...
AI and dyslexia
What can't AI do? Check out an article by a successful tech entrepreneur who started out with dyslexia and found AI a useful tool.Main point: "I think it was my dyslexia and my need to see things from a different angle that enabled me to be open to the rewards...
Taking on robot vision
An article about a startup working on robot vision may offer ways to enhance robot capabilities in industry.Main point: As important as the manual abilities of robots are, they need the ability to properly see their environments before they can take a...
Follow your guide
It looks like progress on the assistive technology front with Google's Project Guideline, "an artificial intelligence system designed to help blind and vision-impaired people to run races by themselves." Main point: It's "an attempt to give those people more...
Learning from the movers and “shapers”
It takes one to know one. I saw an article where Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, shared some things he learned from getting to know top movers and shakers like Elon Musk and Bill Gates.Main point: "Dalio often sees common threads in these leaders’...
Walmart and driverless vehicles
Did you know Walmart is testing driverless vehicles?Main point: "As Walmart looks to compete in retail's delivery wars against rivals like Amazon, autonomous vehicles will ultimately play an important role in its ongoing strategy of improving delivery times to...
AI and bias
An article described reviewing research articles for bias as a way to think about eliminating bias in assessments.Main point: "More strategic use of AI systems — through what I call “blind taste tests” — can give us a fresh chance to identify and remove decision...