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What is scalability? We talk about scalability, and scaling laws. But what does scalability actually mean? Let’s explore the idea of scalability, with examples from maps, to buildings, and finally AI. https://youtu.be/jRLAGieCbVo
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I will be in Marrakesh on Jan 28 - Feb 3. Let me know if you want to meet!
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Is it possible to build a bridge in a single day with a million workers? Can a lemon produce a thousand liters of juice if squeezed for long enough? These "disanalogies" show how surprising AI's scalability laws are. youtu.be/9ZEn4HvOsGM
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At CES 2025, Jensen Huang has illustrated how three scaling laws are driving AI’s exponential growth, ensuring it avoids plateaus and accelerates toward ever-shorter doubling rates. For me this is his most important message, not just the product announcements.
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On Tuesday Jan 7 at 4PM CET I have a live conversation with Sensay CEO Dan Thomson discuss the technology behind lifelike companions, explore ethical questions around identity and consent, and how these tools forever change how we share knowledge and connect across generations. Discover how Sensay is transforming the concept of “digital immortality” through AI-driven replicas that preserve identities, support dementia care, enrich learning, and retain corporate expertise. Live on YouTube at 4PM CET on Tue Jan 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBOmWkCi-0s
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Never trust the online platforms you use. Download your data. Now is a good time to do it. https://davidorban.com/2025/01/reclaim-your-digital-autonomy/
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Thinking back, so many things happened during the year, but here are my most valuable highlights: we welcomed my second grandchild, Cristopher, from my oldest son Jacopo; my middle son Cosimo moved from Montreal to Sydney joining ILM; and my daughter Jordy got married in Seoul to Jungho. Wishing you and your loved ones a joyful season and a fantastic year 2025 ahead!
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When Fei-Fei Li built ImageNet with limited resources, she catalyzed an entire AI revolution. High quality data was necessary to start the innovation process, and she put in the effort. In a horse-drawn carriage you have time to correct course. But in a rocket you need millisecond-precise data. That's the AI landscape where our rate of acceleration itself is increasing. I call this the Paradigm of Jolting Technologies, and is the reason why high quality data is crucial today. As autonomous systems multiply beyond the limit of merely 8 billion humans, we'll see an explosion of new data sources. This is going to provide an open-ended, positive-sum economic opportunity for unbounded innovation. Watch the video of the supercut of my remarks at the 9th Quality Conference in Riyadh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZx5DWTC2P8
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I will be in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 17–19, speaking about data quality at the 9th National Quality Conference. https://nqc.saso.gov.sa/ #NQC9 Let me know if you are around and want to meet.
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I will be in Lisbon for Web Summit from Nov 9 to Nov 15. Let me know if you want to meet
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Have you started to memorize the four letter airport codes? KJFK, KSFO are easy enough. But EGLL, OMDB, or RKSI less so. You can have fun looking around to get acquainted on Flightaware
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Here are some of the conferences that I'll be attending next week in Dubai: cosmoverse.org blockchain-life.com summit.cardano.org
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If you’re in Dubai next week, I’ll be attending several events happening during this particularly intense conference season in the area. Let me know: I’d love to catch up in person. There are a lot of little tricks that can make attending a conference more effective and enjoyable: - making sure that you invest time beforehand to understand the conference format and the agenda, - using the specific conference app if available, or even little things like what I do, - putting a QR code with my contact information as the cover screen of my phone enabling people to very quickly add me to their contacts, and - taking a selfie together, which represents a convenient snapshot of the time and place where we met as a reminder to both. I collected these tips and tricks in a convenient PDF that you can download: a conference participation guide. I hope you enjoy it. https://share.hsforms.com/17vX6ZRSPSl65vt49EwTQagc4fvs
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The Hungarian edition of my book is available now with the title "Valami új?"
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I'll be in Budapest Oct 9-13. Let me know if you'd like to meet
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Although I was born in Budapest, I am rarely in Hungary due to my business interests being elsewhere. This is why I am particularly happy to have been invited to participate in a panel discussion at the MVM Future Talks conference. MVM Future Talks is an annual large-scale scientific, educational, and entertainment interactive online talk show, where renowned Hungarian and international experts and celebrities come together at a virtual table. https://www.mvmfuturetalks.hu/
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I will be in Seoul until October 8. If you are around, and want to meet, let me know.
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A Dog On The Beach - A story of jolting change in six generations. (Slides from my presentation at the Global AI Week Hackathon with Upstage and Beyond Enterprizes.) Will you be alert? Recognize the weak signals of jolting change? Analyze it before everyone? Endure their skepticism?
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I will be with Beyond Enterprizes and Upstage as a judge at the Global AI Week AI Hackathon finals in Jeju, South Korea
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For tomorrow's meeting about The Singularity Is Nearer, we are surveying the participants around their views on advanced AI, humanoid robots, brain implants, mind uploading, etc. It's also the way to collect their questions and have them vote on the questions by others, so we don't address them haphazardly, but in order of interest. It's in Italian, but if you speak the language, you are welcome to participate! http://singularityumilan.com/quiz58
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