Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer
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🎙️ Host of @thursdai_pod (get your AI news with us!) ✨ AI Evangelist with @wandb & @coreweave 🪄🐝 Opinions my own
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MidJourney just announced... a full body ultrasound! Yup... read on because it's as crazy as it sounds. "As powerful as MRI and as casual as a trip to the spa" They are calling it "the Midjourney scanner" Insane details: - First, the scale. The device uses 8,960 individual transducers arranged in a ring around your body - The precision is the most jaw-dropping part: it resolves motion at the picometer range. It can image internal tissues finer than the width of an atom. We are talking sub-atomic level diagnostic capability - The compute requirement is massive. The system processes 17 gigabytes of data per second. It takes 40GB of raw data to reconstruct just one cross-sectional slice. And they are planning to scan 100 slices? - Midjourney claims that fewer than 12 of these machines could perform more full-body scans than every MRI machine on Earth combined. Welcome to the future of healthcare! Not only these scanners are announced, they will exist in a "Midjourney SPA" - with hot tubs, saunas, cold plunges, and 9-10 whole body scanners.
Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer614,186 views • 1 month ago
On the topic of our kids having AI friends (long) I got my 6yo Daughter an AI toy for her b-day that arrived for Xmas instead. She unpacked it all excited, I explained that this isn't like other toys, that this one has AI in it (she of course knows what AI is, seen the things I've built and interacted with them, chatted with chatGPT and Santa mode, knows that daddy is "doing AI" etc') So a very interesting experiment happened after @_magicaltoys reached out and fixed the issue referenced below (very quick turnaround! thank you!) So...she played with this Dino, chatted with it, and then... learned to turn it off, and doesn't want it to talk anymore. She still loves playing with it, dressed it up, it now has paper shoes and a top hat that we made together, but every time I ask her if she'd like to chat with it, she says no. The few times I turned it back on, and she did speak with it, she chatted for a bit, and then just... turned it off again, not wanting to engage at all. I gently asked why, and wasn't able to really understand where's the resistance, it's not weird to her. In fact, at one point she was pretending the dino was a baby, and it was turned on, so I told her, let's ask it to.. pretend to be a baby, and it obliged and said ok. So we asked it to cry. Granted @_magicaltoys don't yet have the amazing advanced voice mode like openAI in there, so it did it's best but it sounded weird, which made her laugh really hard. it was basically making crying sounds like talking. And also, there are some technical issues still, the voice is sometimes choppy, so it could be that it's still uncanny for her? I'm honestly fascinated about why the AI aspect of this toy didn't connect with my 6yo (and btw, I have a very curious 4yo boy, who could give 0 fucks about this toy also, he's very observant, and usually wants everything his sister has, wanted 0 time with Dino) Is this uncanny valley? a couple of times she didn't want to talk to it, and came to me to whisper to ask me to turn it off (the same happened a couple of times with chatGPT Santa mode btw now thinking about it) Is this just now knowing what to say? 🤔 It could be the simple fact that she was playing with some other things, and the toy kept wanting to engage and take the attention to itself vs the game that she was playing. I know that I have a sample size of 1 kid here, and I'm sure many many things will change, as she'll grow and learn to interact with more AIs in different forms, but the first "toy" contact was interestingly almost a complete failure (from the AI perspective, the Toy experience as I said, was dope) Anyway, this area is def unexplored, will keep you guys posted how this goes and if she shows interest or picks it up again.
Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer5,158,767 views • 1 year ago
I'm sorry, but I've seen this and now you must see this as well. H/t Lincoln 🇿🇦
Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer599,663 views • 3 months ago
"Every software company in the world, needs to have an OpenClaw🦞 strategy" - Jensen at NVIDIA AI GTC Framing OpenClaw as one of the most important open source releases ever, they have announced NemoClaw - a reference platform for enterprise grade secure Openclaw, with OpenShell, Network boundaries, security baked in.
Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer561,772 views • 4 months ago
HOLY CRAP, a new super tiny 1.6B param voice model just dropped that seems to.. outperform 11labs!? 😵💫 From Nari-labs, Dia is an Apache 2.0 voice model, that can generate laughs, sniffs and emotions, copy an existing voice and is effectively real time on larger GPUs:
Alex Volkov525,803 views • 1 year ago
Something incredible is happening in Airchat Naval Opened BabelChat, which is a chat where only he is allowed to speak English, while the rest can only speak another language, and the app auto translates all speakers transcripts. 🇪🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷🇵🇹🇫🇷🇩🇪🇰🇷🇯🇵 all speak and understand each other! Honestly this is what I wanted to have on Twitter with Targum and I'm so exited to be an early air chatter! // Arjun Khemani Sigil Wen
Alex Volkov613,665 views • 3 years ago
A candid hallway track interview with the man himself - swyx Mini Podcast if you will, he's told me about a huge milestone tomorrow, things that have surprised him about AI Engineer and ... a few things on the personal side! 0:00 — Daily Context AIE Newsletter 0:47 — AI Engineer Growth 1:23 — Workshop Lines & Skills Track 2:28 — Jam Corner & Music 3:52 — AI Engineer Essay Anniversary 4:26 — Intensity, Integrity, Intentionality, Insanity 4:52 — AGI Pills & Insane Perks 5:56 — Livestream & YouTube CTA Hope you enjoy this "behind the scenes" chat with the guy who made this whole thing happen. Also chatting with us, Kent C. Dodds 🏹 Liad Yosef Wolfram Ravenwolf Ray Fernando Gangadhar Payyavula Hallway track remains unmatched!
Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer13,237 views • 27 days ago
🚀 PSA: Telegram bots can now STREAM responses like ChatGPT! (Great for lovers) Bot API 9.3 added sendMessageDraft — your bot shows a typing bubble that updates in real-time as it generates. But the docs are confusing. Here's how to actually enable it 🧵
Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI)49,304 views • 6 months ago
Very risky live translation demo with subtitles in English is happening with XR glasses and the Google IO crown goes wild! What a trajectory change for Google! Shipping like crazy, live demos, excitement in the air! INSANE Warby Parker and Gentle Monster will be partners!
Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer71,694 views • 1 year ago
The weirdest hackathon took place yesterday in SF, the rule was simple: Touch your computer, lose points‼️ Humans write specs, and socialize while the loop runs, and auto writes code. We were excited to help this folks host it at the Weights & Biases office in SF, I even woke up at 3am to fly down there, here's what went down: Ralphton first originated in Seoul, SK, where hackers wrote Ralph specs, went to sleep, and woke up to working projects, has been brought to SF by GB Jeong, Jake Park Sigrid Jin 🌈🙏 and like 10 other team members, some flew to SF from Seol for this. Last Tue, Ray Fernando posted on X, asking if someone can host a hackathon sponsored by OpenAI Developers, as they run out of space in SF. I figured, why not help these folks, and out great community team jumped on the opportunity. With simultaneous hacking happening across the globe, the SF Ralphton ending when the Korean one started, they sent Ralphdad geoff to Seoul, and had Romain Huet Mo Tiwari speak, at like 5:30 PM. I had a great time, we did a nearly 4 hour livestream on Ray Fernando youtube channel, showed folks what Weights & Biases and CoreWeave is all about, and connected with incedible folks building cool things!
Alex Volkov16,088 views • 3 months ago
Team Yes Chef is happy to present: Robotic chef AI puppet that cooks you while cook 🧑🍳 (our submission to the Conversational Voice AI Hackathon 🤞) We had such a blast making this one, from ideation to 3D printing, to experimental hardware, 👇 a breakdown and repro steps
Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer49,010 views • 1 year ago