As usual, Kris Krug of Future Proof Creatives did an excellent job hosting and facilitating. It was once again a fantastic meetup! I had stimulating technical and non-technical conversations with many highly talented and captivating attendees.
Update Sept 4th 2024:
Kris has a great blog post about the event Blog Post
AI Highlights:
I had the pleasure of connecting with two new AI acquaintances:
Douglas Chen - Douglas has built an AI app that generates complete code bases for applications running on iPhones, Android, and the web. 🤯
Sev Geraskin - Sev described how he used AI writing to build unit tests first, then leveraged AI to build an app based on those tests. 🧪
We delved into numerous technical details and found common ground discussing the remaining challenges in enabling apps to build apps.
Hardware Innovation:
Kevin Friel demonstrated a fascinating new hardware invention that uses AI models to run light shows synchronized with live music! 🎶 💡
I had a brief follow-up conversation with Dr. Patrick Pennefather regarding my music stem extraction project we had discussed at the June meetup. I detailed the capabilities of the Demucs code developed by Facebook Research. This code uses AI to extract music into four distinct tracks: audio, percussion, bass, and vocals. I had continuing interesting discussions on the topic with Ove Holmqvist 🎧