Recorded on March 8th, 2024
HOSTS
AB – Andrew Ballard
Spatial AI Specialist at Leidos.
Robotics & AI defence research.
Creator of SPAITIAL
Helena Merschdorf
Geospatial Marketing/Branding at Tales Consulting.
Undertaking her PhD in Geoinformatics & GIScience.
Mirek Burkon
CEO at Phantom Cybernetics.
Creator of Augmented Robotality AR-OS.
Violet Whitney
Adj. Prof. at U.Mich
Spatial AI insights on Medium.
Co-founder of Spatial Pixel.
William Martin
Director of AI at Consensys
Adj. Prof. at Columbia.
Co-founder of Spatial Pixel.
From Violet:
Sandwich.vision – the future of Television!
Oh my – half-funny/half-serious/half-bad-at-maths – is THIS the future of Television? Sadly… we think they’re onto something, especially when they release the version that lets you watch TV with a buddy, all in virtual space. A must-watch.
Google Earth Studio
Create your own cinematic fly-throughs of open world location, using Google’s own 3D Mapping and Satellite Imagery library, and keyframe your way to stunning visualisations. As mentioned in the Podcast – this is so good – we want this for our TVs to play on loop as background art!
https://www.google.com/earth/studio/
From William:
V-JEPA. Doesn’t roll off the tongue – but this is Video ML for everyone.
Meta comes to the party with open code, papers and an insightful rundown of how their new V-JEPA AI/ML model learns – and can be used as a foundational model for your projects, too.
By using unlabeled video feeds – then removing (masking out) portions of the video, Meta has arrived at a model that can reconstruct temporal- and space-sensitive guesses at how to fill in the missing piece. The good news is that this model approaches the world of ‘spatial intelligence’ from yet another angle, giving more tools to help understand the relationships between video of the world… vs the real world – and how to go back and forth between the two concepts.
https://ai.meta.com/blog/v-jepa-yann-lecun-ai-model-video-joint-embedding-predictive-architecture/https://ai.meta.com/blog/v-jepa-yann-lecun-ai-model-video-joint-embedding-predictive-architecture/
From AB:
Our own Helena – launching a new podcast: Marketing Geospatial
Just ONE DAY after we finished the 101 Resources for Learning Spatial AI – Helena and Daniel O’Donohue have launched their new Podcast, focssing on how to Market, Brand and otherwise smartly-and-elegantly Promote your own geospatial business – in style : )
Episode 1 is here: https://www.marketinggeospatial.com/scaling-your-geospatial-brand-with-thought-leadership-content/
Introducing GeoGPT+, an OpenAI ‘GPT’ that… does your work for you?
So first up, it’s a ‘GPT’ – a custom-chat interface bundled into your OpenAI Pro Access plan (circa $20/month) – but NOT available in any other way. What it is, is a pre-prompted chatbot that is predisposed to handling and talking about geospatial and geographical concepts and geoscience terminology. Backed by ChatGPT4, it’s quite impressive, and in my trials trying to break it/find it’s limits (because of course that’s what us human do to ChatBots)… it’s more focussed than your regular ChatGPT session, but not Professor-level by any means.
https://medium.com/data-storytelling-corner/geogpt-revolutionizing-geospatial-data-analysis-with-ai-78e3f7e4c1e1
Also compare and contrast to Geology Guide (https://chat.openai.com/g/g-o91x8Zr2A-geology-guide) – a less-excitingly-named GPT, but it it more into the data wrangling and AI, than the science ond history of geology. Your mileage may vary.
To absent friends.
