More than 100 venture capitalists have pledged to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, pitting themselves against a small, but vocal, group of Trump-aligned tech execs driving an emerging narrative that Silicon Valley is leaning to the right. “They don’t speak for me… they don’t speak for most of us,” Leslie Feinzaig, founder of venture firm Graham & Walker, and an organizer of VCsForKamala, told the New York Times. Forbes has more on the billionaires pledging their support. https://flip.it/-4l9XM #USPolitics #KamalaHarris #SiliconValley #Election2024 #Tech

If you’ve watched any Olympics coverage this week, you will more than likely have seen an advert for Google’s Gemini AI called “Dear Sydney.” In it, a proud father turns to Google’s AI chatbot for help on behalf of his daughter, who wants to write a letter to her idol and world-record-holding hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone. But what does that say about the scope of AI, and the tasks that Google sees it replacing? For @npub1aza6...sm60 writing for @Ars Technica it puts him on edge. “Rather than using LLMs to automate tedious busywork or difficult research questions, “Dear Sydney” presents a world where Gemini can help us offload a heartwarming shared moment of connection with our children,” he says. Here’s more.

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Outsourcing emotion: The horror of Google’s “Dear Sydney” AI ad

Opinion: "Help my daughter write a letter" is not the same as "Help me with boring busywork."

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