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All About AI with Gary Marcus | WTO Ministerial Conference Ends | Meet UN Resident Coordinator in Kenya, Dr. Stephen Jackson | UN Ocean Decade Progress Report | Brazil and Biotech

All About AI with Gary Marcus | WTO Ministerial Conference Ends | Meet UN Resident Coordinator in Kenya, Dr. Stephen Jackson | UN Ocean Decade Progress Report | Brazil and Biotech

What is the UN Resident Coordinator's Office? What is the UN Development Assistance Framework? How does one measure success? To answer these and other questions we interviewed Dr. Jackson, RC in Kenya

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This Wednesday 22 June, at 8 PM CET, join us for a conversation with Dr. Gary Marcus, NYU Professor Emeritus, and author of Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust.

The event will be moderated by Dr. Marielza Oliveira, UNESCO Director for Partnerships and Operational Programme Monitoring, Communications and Information Sector, with special guests Dr. Luis Lamb, Visiting Fellow at MIT, and the Deputy Consul-General at the Brazilian Consulate General in San Francisco, H.E. Dr. Eugenio Vargas Garcia, Brazil’s first appointed Tech Diplomat, in charge of relations with Silicon Valley technology companies.

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Dr. Gary Marcus is a scientist, best-selling author, and entrepreneur. He is Founder and CEO of Robust.AI, and was Founder and CEO of Geometric Intelligence, a machine learning company acquired by Uber in 2016. He is the author of five books, including The Algebraic Mind, Kluge, The Birth of the Mind, and The New York Times best seller Guitar Zero, as well as editor of The Future of the Brain and The Norton Psychology Reader.

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