Nvidia's Marc Spieler drives AI adoption in energy sectors to enhance efficiency, reduce emissions, and improve resilience.

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Nvidia's sustainability efforts are led by Parker, who measures and manages water use and renewable energy conversion. He also promotes AI tools for sustainability outside the company.

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Venture firm Sequoia Capital's partner Pat Grady is prioritizing AI investments, leading the firm's strategy and investing in companies like OpenAI, Harvey, and Hugging Face. He emphasizes investing in talented founders rather than securing the best financial deals.

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Anandkumar, a former Nvidia senior director, has transitioned to CalTech as a Bren professor, focusing on tensors and AI to predict and alleviate the climate crisis.

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Alex Hanna, former Google AI ethicist and current head of research at Distributed AI Research Institute, is writing a book titled 'The AI Con'. The book explores the impact of AI on communities, specifically focusing on how AI tools can lead to job displacement and gigification of work. Hanna previously worked with Timnit Gebru, who was fired from Google after raising concerns about natural language processing tools.

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Emma Strubell, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute, is working to identify more sustainable systems that power AI. She explains the Jevons effect and its relevance to the increasing use of AI and its impact on energy providers. Strubell's research emphasizes the need to find more efficient and environmentally friendly raw materials for AI training.

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Elizabeth Kelly directs the US AI Safety Institute, a group of experts studying AI risks, particularly in national security, civil rights, and public safety. The institute aims to introduce testing standards for AI developers.

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Attorney Crosby leads a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that their chatbots were trained using copyrighted New York Times articles without permission. Crosby hopes the suit establishes copyright protection for creators whose works are used to train AI products.

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Matt Steiner, Meta's vice president of monetization infrastructure, is leading the company's AI-driven resurgence in advertising. His team focuses on using AI for ad targeting and measurement, particularly after Apple's 2021 privacy update. They are developing AI models for various advertiser goals and integrating AI into Meta's Ads Manager.

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Alexandr Wang, CEO of $13.8 billion data-labeling company Scale AI, has expanded the company's focus from autonomous vehicles to powering the generative AI boom. They work with notable startups like OpenAI, employing contractors to annotate vital training data for AI models. Wang previously worked as an algorithm developer at Hudson River Trading and held software-engineering roles at Quora and Addepar.

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