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Tim Davis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
552 total appearances

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The Neuron: AI Explained
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M

And when it was very, you know, because I worked at Google on TensorFlow Lite and, you know, it was just a weird social interaction to be wearing glasses and then sort of be like looking up to the sky when you're talking to someone.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M

And it was sort of a little bit like...

The Neuron: AI Explained
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M

What exactly are you doing?

The Neuron: AI Explained
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M

Why do you keep looking up at like off to the, you know, off to this region in space and then coming back and talking to me again?

The Neuron: AI Explained
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M

Clearly that's not going to work, right?

The Neuron: AI Explained
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M

Like that's not a social medium that works.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M

And I think it will be interesting to see even with the evolution of glasses as a product, you know, how do you get the consumer interaction?

The Neuron: AI Explained
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M

How do you get the experience good enough that people want to believe that the utility is there?

The Neuron: AI Explained
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M

Fundamentally, my point is to have that as an input device of what is happening around a person to improve AI, because the more that we can get AI out into the real world, I think the more that it will actually be able to be closer towards intelligence, it will be able to perceive, it will be able to understand complex environments and then respond to some goal.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M

I think that's what we're lacking in today's systems.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M

Yeah, I mean, I think that's, you know, I think that's an interesting, that's sort of, you know, in many ways an interesting frontier because you aren't in that, you know, are so limited in that world and you have to make constant trade-offs between if I tune and deploy a more powerful model on a robot, then I know I'm doing that at, you know, at,

The Neuron: AI Explained
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M

at risk of using more energy, which reduces the utility to the end state consumer.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M

That's like, again, I want to plug in my iPhone and get five days of battery.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M

I don't want to plug in my robot.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M

And then 25 minutes later, it's like, sorry, I've run out of power.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M

100%.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M

Why did I pay, you know, $50,000 for this robot that I need to charge every 10 minutes?

The Neuron: AI Explained
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M

Like, that's not going to fly.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M

And so there is going to be an interesting balance there.

The Neuron: AI Explained
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M

And a lot of it, you know, not only is it hardware innovation and silicon innovation, a lot of it is, like, what is the software model that's going to power that to enable developers to move quickly and iterate fast?