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Dear Google Hangouts: Please Fix How Notetaker Bots Join Our Calls!Have you ever been on a work call which looks like this? You’re there to see one individual, but multiple chatbot notetakers have also…Jan 22A response icon1Jan 22A response icon1
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The Missing Manual: Safety Engineering for Organizations Using LLMsIt’s now been exactly 70 years since the term “artificial intelligence” was coined. AI first joined the technical vocabulary 1955…Apr 16, 2025Apr 16, 2025
