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Creating Member Value with AI: How a Custom GPT Became a Marketing Assistant for Endodontists

AI isn’t just transforming how associations operate internally—it’s opening new doors for how we serve our members. At the American Association of Endodontists (AAE), we’ve made it a priority not just to use AI, but to share its power with our...

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Sidecar Sync Episode 94 featuring an interview with Dr. Nicola Sahar on AI Knowledge for Associations.

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Semantic Health & the Future of Medical Coding with Dr. Nicola Sahar | [Sidecar Sync Episode 94]

Summary: In this episode of Sidecar Sync, co-hosts Mallory Mejias sits down with Dr. Nicola Sahar to explore how a University of Toronto med student...

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A stylized bird’s-eye view map of the United States showing AI infrastructure as glowing orange data nodes connected by electric blue lines, with major cities illuminated to represent power consumption.

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The AI Infrastructure Gap That Nobody's Talking About

By 2028, AI companies will need twice New York City's peak electricity demand just for training their models. Just for training. Not for the millions...

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A cluttered office wall covered in colorful sticky notes, scribbled AGI predictions, and red strings connecting them like a conspiracy board. A central yellow note reads '15 MINUTES DAILY' in bold.

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AGI: Separating the Hype from Reality for Your Association

Will artificial general intelligence arrive in 2027? Within a decade? Never? Ask three AI experts and you'll get four different answers. Geoffrey...

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ChatGPT said: A scientist waters a thriving money tree labeled

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Why Your Association's AI Safety Obsession Could Be Your Competitive Advantage

In the AI race, the tortoise just lapped the hare—and nobody saw it coming. Anthropic's founders left OpenAI because they thought the industry was...

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Sidecar Sync podcast episode 93 cover featuring Mallory Mejías, Amith Nagarajan, a small brown dog, and the Anthropic AI logo with gears

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Mission-Driven Models, AGI on the Horizon, & the AI Infrastructure Crunch | [Sidecar Sync Episode 93]

Summary: In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan cover a trio of urgent topics shaping the AI landscape. They kick off...

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The Physical API: When Robots Become as Easy to Program as Software

Here's a simple line of code: email.send("Hello world") In just a few characters, you've instructed a computer to perform an incredibly complex...

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How AI Learned to See the World: The Data Revolution Powering Tomorrow's Robots

June 2009, Miami Beach. A small team of researchers stands by their poster in the corner of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference....

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Friendly humanoid robot cooking in a warm, modern kitchen, stirring a pot and chopping vegetables on the counter.

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The Physical Turing Test: Why Associations Should Care About the Robot Revolution

Last week, I saw a delivery robot rolling down the sidewalk with someone's Uber Eats order. I was genuinely impressed! This little robot with...

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