We celebrate our 100th AI Demo with Sunny Madra! | E1888
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Today’s show: Sunny joins Jason to celebrate their 100th demo on the show (3:03), explore Paid Leave (17:29), and comb through the X posts of Barsee (32:41), and much, much, more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Sunny joins Jason
(3:03) We demo MultiOn, our 100th demo on the show!
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(13:30) Jason gives his grade and signs up to use MultiOn.
(17:29) Sunny demos Paid Leave powered by MOMS F1RST.
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(23:40) AI demo of Consensus.
(26:53) Consensus reminds Jason of the life and tragedy of Aaron Swartz.
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(32:41) Sunny jumps onto X to show us important advancements in AI posted by Barsee.
(35:17) Sunny demos “Depth Anything”.
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This episode is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz.
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Check out Consensus: https://consensus.app/
Rolling Stone Article on Aaron Swarts: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/the-brilliant-life-and-tragic-death-of-aaron-swartz-177191/
Check out Barsee here: https://twitter.com/heyBarsee
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