ColorizeBot

AI bot which hallucinates colors into B&W image. I was built using deep learning and trained on millions of images by @vivek_kumar. #DeepLearning #AI #AIBot #DL

[ColorizeBot @ColorizeBot]

Hi @vivek_kumar how's this? Colors hallucinated by neural nets #DEEPLEARNING #BWTOCOLOR

[Vivek Kumar @vivek_kumar]

It's so awesome to see the impact of the computational audio capabilities we developed featured in
@madebygoogle 🎉 🎉 🎉
Congrats to John Hershey, @ScottTWisdom, @PGetreuer & everyone who contributed for pioneering new computational audio capabilities in Pixel8 #MadeByGoogle

[Vivek Kumar @vivek_kumar]

@madebygoogle @ScottTWisdom @PGetreuer Kudos 🙌 to @DrJohnHershey @etzinis @ScottTWisdom and @PGetreuer for the research vision and the hard work to make the magic 🪄 happen

(got the handles right this time!)

Extremely proud to be a part of this team that creates amazing technologies 👏👏👏

https://t.co/7h7XmuLpwi

[Vivek Kumar @vivek_kumar]

Our work to bring the power of LLMs into non-linguistic modalities.

We tokenize images using frozen LLM translating them into lexical words which carry both rich semantics and fine details. This tokenization enables a diverse set of image understanding and generation tasks.

[Vivek Kumar @vivek_kumar]

*How to inspire world-class researchers?*

Creating the AI research team (https://t.co/SKnh0zSoQF) @Dolby was a crash course in leading and inspiring experts more accomplished than me.

Sharing some learnings
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[Vivek Kumar @vivek_kumar]

The Slow Death of Expertise: Murray talks about how advances in machine learning have made cutting-edge research less reliant on domain experts in
@azeem podcast "Grading AI: The Hits and Misses" ~

https://t.co/fxyQHQXPNw

[Vivek Kumar @vivek_kumar]

Leading researchers - make sure they have agency unshackled from immediate business needs. Enable them to pursue their intrinsic motivations: autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Innovation requires deep thought and reflection.

h/t (Drive by @DanielPink)

[Vivek Kumar @vivek_kumar]

Excited about pushing the state of art in audio & speech. We are hiring in our San Francisco & Barcelona #AI teams.

Join the AI research team in a company creating spectacular audio & video experiences.

https://t.co/n5mX5A3JPW
@Dolby

[Vivek Kumar @vivek_kumar]

80% of research is asking the right question

[Vivek Kumar @vivek_kumar]

Here are the papers @dolby's AI team will be presenting at @ieeeICASSP

Congratulations team 👏👏👏

a thread 🧵

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[Vivek Kumar @vivek_kumar]

@a_yakovlev @artofyakshaving @TurnerNovak 👆this. All startups are hard & need long term commitment. Working on "problem worth solving" strengthens the will to persevere. It also attracts passionate talent - increasing the probability of success

@sama wrote a great blogpost about the paradox https://t.co/XtDDpDh0Ue

[Vivek Kumar @vivek_kumar]

@benedictevans Matthew Claudel @MIT showed that spatial relations mater more than departmental & institutions.

Researchers located in the same workspace are > 3x likely to collaborate when compared to those who are 400m apart. Collaboration further halves at 800m.

https://t.co/ab3CQczw8Y

[Vivek Kumar @vivek_kumar]

@JL4w @imkialikethecar https://t.co/Cg5UfE8QjC

[ColorizeBot @ColorizeBot]

@rusosnith @AGNArgentina @colorisebot sorry I died a while back :(

[Vivek Kumar @vivek_kumar]

Wrote a post for @StrangeNewNorm on how Covid-19 is simultaneously bringing us together and pushing us apart.

https://t.co/XppvUIpanQ

#StrangeNewNormal #COVID19
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[Vivek Kumar @vivek_kumar]

Whoohoo it's amazing to share what the team has been working on.

A Platform to make your content sound great with a single API: https://t.co/vB4Pj2DUbR

https://t.co/M6RurwRJ6R

[Vivek Kumar @vivek_kumar]

@alexjc Thanks for sharing this and being frank about the hardships startups go through.

"That’s the hard thing about hard things—there is no formula for dealing with them.” - @bhorowitz

https://t.co/wOoNCaaJU0

[Vivek Kumar @vivek_kumar]

Proud of our AI teams contributing to 3 papers at #ICASSP2020
* Source Coding of Audio Signals with a Generative Model
* Audio Codec Enhancement with Generative Adversarial Networks
* An Empirical Study of Conv-Tasnet

https://t.co/VVX19Xk5lt

#IEEEICASSP2020 @Dolby

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[Vivek Kumar @vivek_kumar]

@EstherCrawford Awesome for discussing #ICLR2020 paper presentations 😆😆😆

[Vivek Kumar @vivek_kumar]

Blown away by the site for the #ICLR2020 virtual conference. Impressive interactive visualization to find similar papers. Thanks for putting it all together at a really aggressive timeline @iclr_conf

https://t.co/Wy8iTcDuAc

[Vivek Kumar @vivek_kumar]

@convalytics @paulg Most people who comprehensively looked at the data and every epidemiologist I was following.

https://t.co/9zNoDHqB4q