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The U.S.-Mexico AI Education Initiative
Funders wanted veteran implementers to design and deliver a large-scale public-facing international project showcasing how AI can help entrepreneurs. They selected Actionworks because we embraced AI early—we ran our first AI-focused program with GPT-2 back in 2019. This head start, combined with our facilitation expertise, gives us a continued advantage in designing effective AI learning experiences.
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A 4-Week Program Changed Portugal’s Research Ecosystem
Portugal’s Ministry of Science and Technology faced a challenge: turning research into startups and spinoffs to drive economic growth and innovation. The “From Portugal to the World: Innovation-to-Business Journey” program addressed this need.
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From Tokyo to Texas: The University of Tokyo at SXSW
Helping Japanese technologists build international businesses, sell their ideas, and capitalize on conferences.
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Transforming Deep Tech: Actionworks at Intel
How we helped teams at Intel Ignite tell better stories on camera, sell to enterprise, and raise more capital.
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Customer-Centric Learning: A Week in Delhi with the Nexus Accelerator
A recap of a week’s worth of customer-focused founder education in Delhi, India.
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Our Application to OpenAI for GPT-3 API Access
We submitted this today. OpenAI’s founders include Elon Musk and it’s CEO is Sam Altman. GPT-3 is OpenAI’s hugely powerful (and hyped) NLP language model. If you don’t know what that means, think of it as an algorithm that can generate extremely human-like original text. GPT-2 was impressive in terms of its evolution from earlier […]
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More effective online learning: Be person-centered and problem-focused.
24 recent grads and almost grads type intensely in their respective Zoom squares…
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The Entrepreneur and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning: What You Need to Know
Machine learning refers to the ability to extract and leverage insights from data using computing in an automatic way. Here’s an oversimplified example: Let’s say you are coaching a basketball team and you need to decide which player should take the most shots. You could simply watch your players take a lot of shots and decide on gut instinct. Or you could capture data (how many shots each player takes and their shooting percentage, i.e. their make/miss ratio) and decide which player you want shooting the ball the most.
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Crowdsourced Document: Teaching Entrepreneurship Online
Sharing best practices for teaching entrepreneurship online. Includes insights from educators on three continents!
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70 Executives Get Hands-on with AI
There I was, standing in front of 70 businesspeople and software developers visiting from India, watching them pound on table tops.