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10 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2003
Andrew Rabinovich founded a company in 2003 that detected cancer in human tissue using biomedical imaging.
“I got really interested in doing biomedical imaging, and in 2003, I founded the first company that was detecting cancer in human tissue.”
2015
Rabinovich joined Magic Leap to work on what he describes as the most advanced spatial computer in the world at the time.
“joined Magic Leap to build the most advanced spatial computer in the world at the time.”
2020
Rabinovich started Headroom, an AI videoconferencing company that understood participants' speech, expressions and attention.
“I started a company called Headroom, where the goal was to tap into video conferencing experiences that everybody was having”
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Rabinovich says his Google team released Google Goggles, described as the first AR app for both Android and iOS, which is now the lens feature in Pixel phones.
“we released the world's first AR app for both Android and iOS. That was called Google Goggles. Today, that's the lens feature in the Pixel phones.”
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Rabinovich says he and his team joined Upwork the previous December to help turn it into an outcome-driven business.
“since December of last year, I've been at Upwork together with my team in the effort to transform it to be this outcome-driven business.”
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Rabinovich argues language models say an apple falls because of text they have read, not because they understand gravity.
“if you ask a large language model what happens if you drop an apple from the roof of your house, of course, it'll tell you it'll fall”
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Rabinovich says robots succeed in confined settings such as surgical robotics and warehouse packaging.
“Now, with robots, one great example of successful, from my perspective, robots are those that are in an extremely confined environments, like surgical robotics”
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Rabinovich says projector efficiency in see-through AR displays is too low, so batteries do not last long enough.
“If we talk about augmented reality with see-through displays, the efficiency of of the projectors that we have are just too low, so the batteries don't last long enough.”
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Rabinovich predicts AI will let a $10,000 translation budget cover all languages instead of one.
“if in the past you were able to translate a podcast from English to Japanese for $10,000, tomorrow you'll be able to take the podcast and translate them to all languages in the world for the same $10,000.”
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Rabinovich predicts search engines and retrieval systems will give way to dialogue with AI.
“I believe in the future, search engines of this form or any kind of retrieval systems will go away, and everything will be a dialogue between a human and a machine in any mode.”
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