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.@aiwrapper is one of the few people in San Francisco in our community who actually tried to make SF better with their time.
He put aside lucrative careers to work to make government better and that is admirable, earnest, and the correct thing to do.
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$200B+ is lost annually in improper payments by the US federal gov—100X of SpaceX annual budget!
When I was at Palantir, we cleared the backlog of the UK’s NHS by deploying scalable tech that flagged obvious errors, like ultrasounds scheduled for pregnant patients in their 11th month. How is it possible there’s a US federal agency (GAO) that reports this massive waste every year, yet no one’s eliminated it?
Most of US gov still runs on Powerpoint and Excel. An engineering-first gov efficiency commission by @elonmusk could save trillions annually. Exciting possibilities ahead!
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If you're building an AI startup, I'm begging you not to work on another image generation tool or LLM for middle class Americans. 'Competition is for losers' as @peterthiel said, find what nobody is working on. Look through the 280k+ datasets on data.gov, imagine problems you could solve if you had a perfect function approximator for that data. That's what neural networks are at the end of the day.
Suppose you had a system that predicted one of these with 95%+ accuracy, what could you do with that? What real human problems could be solved?
catalog.data.gov/dataset/?q=…
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300+ e/acc engineers just spent 24 hours building AI solutions to San Francisco’s most pressing challenges— housing, safety, public health
The Mayor even showed up.
Tweeting the finalists building a better future for SF at the @accelerate_sf Hackathon at @fdotinc (🧵):
RT @jowyang: Can AI fix SF? How about your city?
This is @fdotinc our hosts for @accelerate_sf Hackathon. There are six projects that are…
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Our VP of Machine Learning @elliot_branson shared Donovan with more than a hundred hackers who are exploring ways to solve SF’s toughest public sector challenges at the @accelerate_sf hackathon.
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#BreakingNews: San Francisco Mayor @LondonBreed has confirmed her attendance at the Accelerate SF event on Nov 4-5. Exciting times as the city's top tech talents aim to use AI for social good. More details here: venturebeat.com/ai/accelerat… #AccelerateSF #AIforGood
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Extremely excited to participate in @accelerate_sf hackathon this weekend.
I've been reading Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka and to see government encouraging hacking and creative problem solving is badass!
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San Francisco AI startups are partnering with local governments on tasks ranging from optimizing public transit to securing government data. sfstandard.com/2023/10/28/sa…
