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Smol.ai founder Shawn Wang proposes a Turing Award equivalent for the discipline of AI engineering

He met with the ACM president to deepen organizational ties.

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OPswyx#214swyx@SWYX

met with @ACM_President today! we awarded Industry Spotlights at @CAISconf, and all posters and OpEx talks will be presenting at @aiDotEngineer next month more AIE x ACM collaboration incoming! wonder what a “Turing award of AI Engineering” could look like…

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REPLYwill brown#339will brown@WILLCCBB

@swyx @ACM_President @CAISconf @aiDotEngineer for contributions to AI engineering as a discipline, would be hard to find a better turing award candidate than @lateinteraction

swyxswyx@swyx

met with @ACM_President today! we awarded Industry Spotlights at @CAISconf, and all posters and OpEx talks will be presenting at @aiDotEngineer next month more AIE x ACM collaboration incoming! wonder what a “Turing award of AI Engineering” could look like…

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