fascinating take on AI by Adam Curtis: "We are haunted, It's the haunting. AI is not the future, it's the final end of the past. it's the moment the past came for us, we will have to escape from it." https://t.co/CK6IU0Ltuv
this makes sense but still surprising it works this well.
this is spectral reconstruction from RGB values from a smartphone camera, they co-designed a spectral color chart with a reconstruction algo, and achieved ~ 2 nm spectral resolution from a single photo.
The most important skill for a researcher is not technical ability. It's taste. The ability to identify interesting and tractable problems, and recognize important ideas when they show up.
This can't be taught directly. It's cultivated through curiosity and broad reading.
@multimodalart@alterego_io I've been thinking about building this since I learned about pre-motor signals and silent speech. it should be *very* simple to build - basically a EMG sensor, and a tiny model - you could probably just finetune a STT model.