Kory Mathewson

@GoogleDeepMind generative AI models + agents | getting great tech into the hands of great creative people

[Kory Mathewson @korymath]

@thomasrorystone @OsiriXViewer @stickermule Oh heck yea, and thanks.

Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a while.

It’s slow and steady. that looks like a heck of a knee repair!

[Kory Mathewson @korymath]

> be me
> right ribs hurt, jujitsu, ya,ya
> go to doctor: you need an xray
> get an xray: you're images will be sent to your doctor
> can I have my own images?
> sure, we can burn them on a disc
> okay, wait 30 minutes
> while waiting, buy disc reader, haven't had that in ... a decade?
> read disc,... autorun.exe, readme.txt, DICOMDIR...
> "The viewer operates under the following environment: Windows XP" - nice
> CPU: Pentium 4. wut is this 1998?
> copy files to mac folder
> agy --dangerously-skip-permissions
> extract the images and tell me whats up
> good news: lung good, ribs good mostly
> bad news: fracture
> by the way kory, I made you a full dicom image viewer web app... just incase
> dope, reminds me of my time studying biomedical engineering
> cool cool, make it a funny meme
> doctor calls: confirms everything

[Kory Mathewson @korymath]

@sedielem @DICOMstandard was it odd stuff... or even stuff ;)

foats as space-padded ASCII strings
pixel spacing [row, col] and image orientation x,y

sign bit being bit 11 because manufacturers jammed other stuff in bits 12–15

[Kory Mathewson @korymath]

@sedielem hilarious. oh i've worked with dicom manip plenty, with 8 years in biomedical engineering

its a good standard

shoutout @DICOMstandard

[Kory Mathewson @korymath]

Incredible result.

And a very inspiring workflow with generative ai Jon.

[Jon Barron @jon_barron]

This bug was first found and fixed by Gemini Flash 3.7, and most experiments in the paper were done by Flash 3.8. Gemini 4 Argon wrote the first draft of the paper and figures, which I aggressively nitpicked until the content was solid but the writing was not. Then I fed Argon a handful of my first-author papers from the last few years and had it do a rewrite in my style (which worked astonishingly well), and then I manually did a rewrite (the hands + keyboard variety) after that. I really liked this workflow! If you like my writing style feel free to throw some of my old papers in your context window and do the same.

[Kory Mathewson @korymath]

awesome.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Using a single Nano Banana image and Blender MCP, Gemini 4 Argon built a 3D Gothic cathedral in @Antigravity.

It iterates on the geometry, textures, and lighting to create the finished scene.

[Kory Mathewson @korymath]

@CanadianPM @MarkJCarney's National Council on AI includes researchers and leaders I respect deeply.

But there's a critical voice missing: a professional creative.

Canada’s arts and culture sector drives $130B & 1M+ jobs, and will be among the most disrupted by AI.

If we want to build "AI for All," we need a creator in the room.

https://t.co/t5HUAjxPZP

[Kory Mathewson @korymath]

@ThoreG Congrats on the launch.

[Kory Mathewson @korymath]

Question from the future

when’s the last time you went to a webpage?

[Kory Mathewson @korymath]

@emollick Congrats on the launch. Very excited to experience this and learn some new new news.

[Kory Mathewson @korymath]

@c_valenzuelab Performance gains are consistent; measuring true generalisation is the harder part.

[Kory Mathewson @korymath]

Generative AI doesn’t make you creative. It rewards you for already being metacognitive.

New study in Journal of Applied Psychology --

Those with high metacognition (planning/monitoring thought) saw large creative gains from AI.

Those without it? Zero significant gain.

The skill of 2026 isn't "using AI."

It's "managing your own mind while using AI."

[Kory Mathewson @korymath]

@iruletheworldmo Strange loops

[Kory Mathewson @korymath]

@MaximeRivest When you lay it out like this it sounds so easy

[Kory Mathewson @korymath]

@driesdepoorter What an artful and interesting use case.

[Kory Mathewson @korymath]

Full piece here - https://t.co/UKt5JOwxIi

[Kory Mathewson @korymath]

AI agents log 6x more hours than human employees at @AnthropicAI

As adoption increased, junior technical hires dropped from 27% to 9%. The bottleneck in software is no longer writing code… it’s managing pipelines and reading outputs,

This gives a strong warning about entry-level tech roles. And junior engineers lose the tasks that might teach them core skills.

New strategies are needed to train senior roles without junior experience.

[Miles Cranmer @MilesCranmer]

Here is the full talk:

[Ammaar Reshi @ammaar]

I used Gemini 4 Argon to make Subway Surfers for the new flying Tesla Roadster 🚀

Fly over moving traffic, hit the thrusters to barrel roll in the sky, and collect air power-ups to set a high score.

Play + code below!