Powering the AI revolution from DeepDream to Dall-E, with Lambda Labs CEO Stephen Balaban

Lex interviews Stephen Balavan, the CEO of Lambda Labs, a company
that provides GPU servers, workstations and cloud services for
training neural networks. Stephen talks about his background in
computer science, economics, and deep learning, and how his
interest in AI began with reading Neuromancer by William Gibson.
He discusses the history of AI research, the concept of
perceptron, and the breakthrough of deep learning in 2012-2014
that enabled machines to recognize and categorize images better
than humans. Stephen also talks about working for Perceptio -
which started as an API for face recognition, and and later was
acquired by Apple.


 


MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION


 


Lambda's website: https://bit.ly/3j6nOVI


CEO's Linkedin profile: https://bit.ly/3HAYhNv


 


Topics: fintech, artificial intelligence, neural networks, deep
learning, generative AI


 


Companies: Lambda, Perceptio, Prisma, Apple, ChatGPT, Dall-E,
Google, DeepDream, Dreamscope


 


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TIMESTAMPS


 


1’48”: Stephen’s academic training and how it formed a foundation
for his career trajectory


 


7’17”: The history of facial recognition AI, what a perceptron
is, how it fails, and the architecture thereof


 


11’59”: Deep neural networks advancing facial recognition
progress and the social credit score dystopia in China


 


17’45”: Define DeepDream and deep style - Neural network reverse
engineering perceptions, visualisations and hallucinations


 


22’34”: From DeepDream to Dream Scope (web app) to accelerate
image accuracy, and addressing the competition: Prisma’s Lensa


 


27’38”: The advances in the AI math that are responsible for the
step-change in progress resulting in OpenAI’s ChatGPT, for
example


 


31’53”: Lambda - how the company started, how the perceptions
around consumable AI have changed, and the progress thusfar


 


36’42”: Lambda’s ability to evolve given the current heightened
demand, and the future of the market


 


39’32”: What the future looks like with AI embedded into our
everyday lives


 


41’38”: Channels to use to connect with Stephen & learn more
about Lambda


Disclaimer here — this newsletter does not provide investment
advice and represents solely the views and opinions of FINTECH
BLUEPRINT LTD.


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