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Marissa Mayer: I Am a Software Girl

Marissa Mayer: I Am a Software Girl

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Oct 23, 2024
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Marissa Mayer didn’t say AI is Death, destroyer of worlds or even AI needs ethical guardrails.

Instead, she said it’s the sun—life-giving, bright, shiny, endlessly giving. Thus, the former Google engineer and CEO of Yahoo, who has worked on artificial intelligence for 25 years, christened her startup Sunshine. It’s devoted to AI-empowering family and soc…

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