Author: Christian Knudsen
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Interview with Dr. Fei-Fei Li (The Godmother of AI)
Dr. Fei-Fei Li is known as the “godmother of AI.” She’s been at the center of AI’s biggest breakthroughs for over two decades. She spearheaded ImageNet, the dataset that sparked the deep-learning revolution we’re living right now, served as Google Cloud’s Chief AI Scientist, directed Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, and co-founded Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered…
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PSA for The Sun
This was an idea for a fake PSA about the sun that Tavis and I came up with over a decade ago. It was never going to get made into Sora 2 came out made it easily accomplishable in an afternoon. It is absurdist humor, it is not my intent to offend anyone. 😬
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ANCESTRA a Short Film by Eliza McNitt
ANCESTRA is a film from Primordial Soup, a storytelling venture founded by director Darren Aronofsky in collaboration with Google DeepMind, this film shows how generative tools can be used by artists to expand creativity rather than replace it. This is one of the first films that I saw that used generative imagery to enhance the…
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ADHD – Music Video by IGORRR
The visuals for this video were made by meatdept.tv and maybe I’m bias but I don’t know how anyone can look at this video and not immediately understand the strange power of the technology! 🤓
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In Memory of My Father
He was not just a loving, kind and patient father, he was literally my privilege in life. Everything that I am, my integrity, my drive, my intelligence, my love for science and storytelling, the very way I think, was all modeled after him.
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Exploring the Meaning of Life: Insights from Survey & Other Insights
Thank you so much for your interest, and for taking the time to fill out my ‘Meaning of Life’ survey in the first place. Although I can’t say that I have “figured it all out”, this whole process has really helped me understand my own beliefs on these topics
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Apple’s Long Awaited Rollout of AI
This last Monday was the first day of Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), commonly referred to as Dub Dub. It is Apple’s time to show off their latest in innovations and plans for the Fall. This year Apple’s big announcement is that AI is coming to their platforms but they cheekily rebranded it to…
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Rare Earth Data Mining
Ch.1 Sometimes I feel like a monster, a collector of souls, stealing tiny pieces of people’s lives unbeknownst to them and selling it to some bloated corporation to do god knows what with it… just so I can have my gadgets and my creature comforts, while the rest of the world makes due with what…
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A mostly proud owner of the Apple Vision Pro headset
I am what they call an “early adopter” (aka: huge nerd), it is most likely my dad’s influence. He was an electrical engineer in aerospace and we had some of the first personal computers in our home, and when he gave me his hand-me-down Palm V (image below) that he got from work, I became…
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No big deal, AI is just figuring the building blocks of life
Google was one of the first companies to start investing heavily in AI, well over a decade ago, they developed and released open source frameworks like TensorFlow, spent billions developing their TPU coprocessors, and acquired a cutting edge UK based AI research lab which became Google’s Deep Mind division. Around 2014 after developing several successful…