Hi, Ivan! Navigating Life with AI: Insights from Ivan Yamshchikov
When we launched "Hi, AI! media", we promised to tell stories about neural networks and the people behind them. Our first interview hero is Ivan Yamshchikov:
— An AI scientist with an interview garnered over a million views on YouTube;
— A Professor at the Würzburg-Schweinfurt University of Applied Sciences in Germany;
— In 2016, he released the album "Neural Defense," consisting of songs written by AI.
Highlights:
📍 Millions of people use AI without realizing it. Search engines are built on neural networks. When you google something, you're using AI. Or when YouTube or Netflix suggests the following video because algorithms select the films.
📍 At work, I regularly use ChatGPT. For instance, I set a task to style a text for scientific journals: I ask for the text to be written as if its editor was raised by Ray Bradbury and Elon Musk together.
📍 The next breakthrough in AI is already happening — multimodal models, meaning images and text together. By using natural language as a tool to create something new, you can change a lot in the world.
📍 Suno neural network is a step towards making music creation as simple as listening to it. It's typical for the 21st century to transform people from consumers into creators.
📍 Copyright is a local story of the 20th century that we will hopefully soon forget. Everything results from previous experience, not just of a single scientist or musician, but of generations.
📍 The uniqueness of human intelligence lies in the ability to see perspectives and find unexpected analogies between different things, processes, and ideas.
📍 In the scientific field, instead of generative models, I often use recommendation systems. There's a Netflix for scientists called Mendeley.com.
📍 Education will change. We will return to the paradigm of the ancient Greeks, where an academy is when you walk in the garden with a teacher and talk about something.
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