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Joyce Shen

Helping Others See

When I flew back from Raleigh to New York Friday evening, I saw a doctor in his scrubs. He carried a box that has a label "human tissue inside." I looked closer, there is another label on the box that says "Miracle In Sight." In between

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in ML/AI, January 14, 2024

Musings Applications of emerging technology and data/ML/AI continue to take off in the marketplace. It's exciting to see Walmart expanding drone delivery in Dallas. I think it is the first of many, and through the drone delivery network, much data insights can be gained to add

Floreo VR - new potential for Autism therapy

Floreo VR, a portfolio company, has been granted FDA Breakthrough Device Designation and accepted into FDA's Total Advisory Product Lifecycle (TAP) Pilot program. Floreo provides immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences and VR-based lessons to help kids and adults with autism learn hard-to-teach skills. Floreo's lessons in

Cybersecurity Stack Report - 2023

Portfolio company Threater released its annual Security Stack Insights Report. The report is based on a survey of 200+ cybersecurity professionals (C-level to managers). Unlike many cybersecurity reports that emphasize on the nature of the cybersecurity vectors and remediations for enterprises, this report emphasizes on how cybersecurity professionals in small

Keep Going

Recently, a number of people in my network got more serious about entrepreneurship and they want to start their own startups. They have great ideas, are domain experts, and have access to engineers and data scientists. They have applied to a few well-known accelerators and got rejected without much of

Google's Gemini

Google launched Gemini today. Gemini 1.0 is a multimodal model that has been trained on image, audio, video and text data and is intended to be generalizable across different data modalities (e.g., you give an image, it can return text-based description of the image). Gemini comes in three

Giving Thanks

I love Thanksgiving for many reasons. One reason is that it gives me an extra opportunity to express gratitude. Indeed, I am very lucky to be able to do what I love. * I am grateful for the investors who back us. * I am grateful for the opportunity to work with

OpenAI Board Should Resign

What happened at OpenAI was crazy on many levels. While I am an outsider to OpenAI's inner workings, I will go out on a limb and say that the people who made the decision to oust Sam Altman probably do not have the right experience for making this

New Industrial Age

Where we are going in Generative AI will fundamentally change how knowledge work will be done, full stop. So we must ask ourselves, what is the future of knowledge work and knowledge workers? Customer services and marketing have already been disrupted. Research, innovation service, creative writing, paralegal, early career roles

Joyce’s picks: readings in ML/AI, October 30, 2023

“Sweeping new Biden order aims to alter the AI landscape” (Politico) “G7 to agree AI code of conduct for companies” (Reuters) “How AI can help to save endangered species” (Nature) “A More Reliable Wikipedia Could Come from AI Research Assistants” (Scientific American) “Take a Step Back: Evoking Reasoning via Abstraction