The Physician’s Touch vs. The Touch of Verification
Clinical trials have been an integral part of medical progress for decades, serving as a crucial conduit for advancing medical treatment plans and expanding the knowledge surrounding such. The urgency to achieve successful outcomes within clinical trials, particularly in the
Homo Informaticus: The Evolving Relationship of Information and the Human Species
Image created with the assistance of DALL-E, by OpenAI Once upon a time, in an era less cluttered by the digital hum of ones and zeroes, the quest for knowledge was nothing short of a grand expedition. You'd find yourself navigating
Diversity Initiatives In Venture Capital Aren’t a Fad
SoftBank Capital is a venture capital fund that houses its legacy SoftBank Vision Fund (a 100 billion dollar fund) and the more recently created SoftBank Opportunity Fund (SB Opportunity Fund) which solely funds minority founders who are Black, Latinx, and
“Hey Siri, Call Mom”: Natural Language Processing and Its Applications in Sentiment Analysis and Chatbots
We rarely analyze the language quirks inherent in our daily conversations. But when it comes time to train a machine to understand human speech, hurdles materialize instantly: the shifting of nouns and verbs in different contexts, the abstract meaning enveloped
Harvard Undergraduate Venture Capital Group Entrepreneurship Summit
Last weekend, I, along with entrepreneurial-minded students, flocked to the Boston Park Plaza Hotel for the 2023 Harvard Undergraduate Venture Capital Group Entrepreneurship Summit hosted by the Undergraduate Venture Capital Group. The event, sponsored by the Lemann Program on Creativity
Why Black Founders Continue To Not Be Funded in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley, Now. Silicon Valley’s lack of diversity has long been something that people have highlighted as well as worked on improving, but this has continued to be an issue. Venture capital firms have continued for decades to fund and
GANs and Audio Synthesis
Introduction Ever since the release of OpenAI’s immensely popular ChatGPT software, AI-generated content has been taking popular culture by storm. The public now has easy access to text generation through ChatGPT, and image generation using other recent software. People have taken
The Work of Art in the Age of Artificial Reproduction: Proust, Vermeer, and Cézanne, and GPT-4
Top image: Hobbs, Tyler, and Wist, Dandelion. QQL #43. With the release of GPT-4, I am finally ready to concede that A.I. can perform most tasks better than humans. From acing the SAT to finding potential exploits in Ethereum Smart Contracts,
Explain Yourself. Current Trends in Model Explainability
Photo by Dan Cristian Pădureț on Pexels.com As we build bigger and more powerful machine learning (ML) models, we also create increasingly darker black box models. If you were to ask the scientists behind ChatGPT and Dall-E 2 how a certain
The LatAm Fintech Revolution
Last holiday season, my family and I visited a local ice cream store in a rural town in Colombia and were offered the option to pay with a direct bank transfer on my Bancolombia app. When living in Brazil this