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Jennifer 8. Lee
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CEO of . fellow. Doc producer. Emoji activist w . Credibility w . Once jenny@jennifer8lee.com
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A lot of things get conflated in the term “AI” as short hand. (We are guilty too. We put “AI” in our talk title to make it sexy, but in reality we were focused on LLMs—large language models. But that’s a terrible acronym for general audience. So slide was to come clean).
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Sprint on the airplane to get the slides done in time for this journalism and LLM talk today at . Yay for Midjourney as a way to get visuals that is are not clip art or stock images.
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I'll be speaking at Tech x The Future of News in the @ComputerHistory with my co-presenter @jenny8lee tomorrow—joined by an amazing array of other presenters! Our topic: how can newsrooms bridge the LLM moat? More info here: computerhistory.org/events/tech-x-
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Hate how paternalistic United is over conflicting reservations with threats to cancel. Maybe customers are booking flights at the same time because they DON’T KNOW what city/day ultimately will be flying from. With no change fees now, makes sense to book cheaper earlier.
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Goodside friend group (built from Sundance) hosted AI talk in NYC. made talk slides artsy because he thought “film people.” As he setting up, I’m like, Um, there are a bunch of STEM PhDs MDs from MIT, Brown, Harvard. Graceful pivot. Know who is in your audience!
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First talk in NYC—on GPT to the Goodside community: 5 PhDs incl. a Columbia sociology prof, a Harvard med prof, lawyers, filmmakers, & entrepreneurs. Dinner from @xianfoods! A lesson from @edwardbenson and @jenny8lee: simpler slides = more relaxed speaking.
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Got in a taxi at Boston airport (too much luggage to walk to Uber area). Ask driver if he has a pairing app to pay. He does, called Arrow. Then we wait until it’s awkward. He says, “So where do you want to go?” I start laughing, because I forgot you have to tell taxi drivers.
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Join this AI talk at Harvard next Monday @ 12 pm ET (IRL version comes with !)
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Live from @Harvard on Monday May 1, a @CS50 tech talk via @YouTube and @Zoom on @OpenAI's GPT-4 with @jenny8lee, @edwardbenson of @GetSteamship, and @srhm_ca of @mcgillu. "How does it work, and how do I build apps with it?" youtube.com/live/vw-KWfKwv cs50.zoom.us/meeting/regist
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Recommendations for best SF coffee shop (with outlets!) to work from on a Saturday in a focused way that hasn’t been closed by the pandemic? (I do appreciate that some new ones have opened in the craziness that is SF these days).
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I have become a saffron mule. This is over $500 worth of Kashmiri saffron (and $12 of garam masala) that I haggled over in Kolkata and brought back for various friends. Curious what a going rate of saffron in US is per gram, and how much how red vs yellow matters?
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I’ve seen this a couple of times now, where CLEAR TSA Precheck is longer (and slower) than plain Precheck line because scanning your fingers/irises takes longer than showing your ID. The idea of CLEAR was faster because fewer people. That breaks down when many people.
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It's very interesting to see yourself big on a museum wall with so many people you have worked with! (I also have no idea where the photo they chose is from since it doesn't look familiar to me!)
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😃❓Did you know 92% of the world’s online population use emoji in their communications? I recently partnered with @ComputerHistory to create a 30-foot tall “Little Emoji, Big Story” Wall art to celebrate #Diversity, #Inclusion & #InternationalWomensMonth: computerhistory.org/exhibits/littl
Artist Yiying Lu's collaborated with the Computer History Museum to create a wall art called: "Little Emoji, Big Story", which curated stories from the origin of emoji and the earliest set of emojis from Japanese telecom NTT DOCOMO in 1999; the museum also chose to feature voices from six global emojis change makers:

- Katrina Parrott, founder & CEO of iDiversicons®, championed the five skin tones to break down racial barriers ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿.

- Paul D. Hunt, a typeface designer at Adobe championed gender-neutral or nonbinary emojis 🧒🏽.

- rayouf alhumedhi, a Stanford product design student, championed the hijab 🧕 emoji.

- Lumen Bigott, a graphic designer from Airbnb, designed the original Unicode 🫓 arepa emoji, a popular staple food or “bread” in Central & South America.

- Jennifer 8. Lee, a journalist and film producer, co-produced the documentary “The Emoji Story,” which tells the story of the evolution of the emoji.

- Yiying Lu, designed the original unicode 🥟🧋🥡🥠🥢🦚
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The combination of things that had to come together to create this photo is really quite hilarious. It was an earlyish birthday surprise at SXSW. Can anyone guess what it is?
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This was an emotional and unforgettable moment at the SXSW premiere. The audience learned that the papers at her adoption agency had been discarded relatively recently and this gave her a parallel life in her imagination. Thanks to for getting me in!
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A moving @sxsw moment during the Q&A for the @joyridemovie premiere: An audience member, herself adopted from China as a baby, tearfully shared how much the movie meant to her… and @ashleyparklady knelt down to give her a hug.
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Reading this updated Hitchhiker’s Guide (especially the last line!) is quite stunning, and makes you wonder if this is telling us something about how contextual knowledge and language are very tightly coupled.
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Experiments with ChatGPT-4, vol. 2. Prompt: "Rewrite the first page of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to make it more relevant to modern American life in 2023."
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This explainer of GPT and Large Language Models by is the most lucid and accessible I’ve seen. Worth spending the time if you’ve been curious about everything bubbling on AI. Raises interesting questions about structure of language.
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I really do want to hear the story behind the rise and fall . I loved, loved that game. Synchronous mobile interactive entertainment really felt like the future back then. And was a master at , holding record of wins.
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At HQ Trivia, we had a live audience of 2.4M people. We felt unstoppable. Then, it all disappeared. GLITCH drops Sunday at 9p on @CNN
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When you order a “scone” in Utah, you get this (I learned that “scone” in Utah basically means fry bread. What are scone scones called in Utah?)
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Yesterday I sat down at the bar at Sun Valley River Run ski lodge yesterday and the bartender asked if I was of age, since people below drinking age were not allowed to sit at the bar.
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Ernest Hemingway’s gun, on display at the Pioneer Saloon, in Ketchum, Idaho. His grave (alway surrounded by small tributes) is also a healthy walk or a short drive away). Older people in town remember when he used to yell at them at the swimming hole when they were kids.
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Are you working on a thriller, mystery, fantasy, sci-fi, romance or literary novel with an Asian-American bent? Submit to the “Pages in Progress” contest for residency at and meeting with literary agents.
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We're thrilled to partner with @plympton and @ThirdStateBooks for PAGES IN PROGRESS, our first annual AAPI fiction contest, open to ALL GENRES. Send your nearly completed draft and let us help you get your book over the finish line! 🔖 Submit by 3/31 aaww.org/submit
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As the FCC chair said on at #KMF2023 in Miami: the cost for a single call in prison often exceeds what most of us pay for a month on our cell phone bill.
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Today the @FCC began the process of limiting what people in prison have to pay for phone calls. This is the biggest-yet federal effort to bring down prison phone costs, and private prison telecom companies have fought it tooth and nail.
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