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Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2
Since Go 1 was released in March 2012, changes to the standard library have been constrained by Go’s compatibility promise. Overall, compatibility has been a boon for Go users, providing a stable base for production systems, documentation, tutorials, books, and more. Over time, however, we’ve realized mistakes in the original APIs that cannot be fixed compatibly; in…
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Leading Companies Launch Consortium To Address AI’s Impact On The Technology Workforce
News Summary: Leuven, Belgium, April 4, 2024 – Cisco and a group of eight leading companies including Accenture, Eightfold, Google, IBM (NYSE: IBM) , Indeed, Intel, Microsoft and SAP as well as six advisors today announced the launch of the AI-Enabled Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Workforce Consortium focused on upskilling and reskilling roles most likely to…
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MIT Launches Working Group On Generative AI And The Work Of The Future
New initiative is convening leading companies and nonprofits with support from Google’s Community Grants Fund. MIT Industrial Performance CenterMIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-launches-working-group-generative-ai-and-work-of-the-future-0328( From students crafting essays and engineers writing code to call center operators responding to customers, generative artificial intelligence tools have prompted a wave of experimentation over the past year. At MIT, these experiments have…
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Watch Our New Pixel Ad Ahead Of The Big Game
As one of the over a billion people in the world with a disability, I’ve experienced how AI is revolutionizing the way we go through the world — from making captions more widely available across content to helping people who are blind or have low vision use their phones to identify information about their surroundings. Through my work…