Had a great day at Mit at the media lab. Really inspired by many of the talks that I heard. It’s really great to hear so many people thinking so hard about so many important things. Lots of focus on the spread of ideas… Good ideas and bad ideas. Interesting to see how pervasive the use of AI is in these important studies.
This afternoon Dianne and I drove home in time to catch my good friend Paul Stok at generator. He talked about the intersection of art and money… He’s good at making both. Really interesting insights… One great Takeaway for me was that when you are convinced and idea is good space and time and the earth itself will bend to your will. It’s funny to hear that coming from him because I know him to be a guy who worries a lot… I think that intersection of worry and certainty a really interesting and positive
After the standing room only talk…, Paul , Ryann (Paul Ryan?!), Ken, Diane and I went to arts riot. They were doing this crazy showing of the movie “the shining”… With no sound but a band playing. It was very cool and creepy. It started to get too scary for me so we went and sat in the bar for a bit
Spent an amazingly fun day at the MIT media lab .. It’s like a homecoming .. I worked at the Arch Mac group.. the precursor to thw Media lab in 1978-80 Todays meeting was a showcase of all the cool stuff the ML is doing. and it’s VERY cool stuff. We’ve been asked not to share it on social media.. so I’ll oblige.. but I will say that it’s a very nice pattern for organized chaos
the view from the roof garden of the media lab
a zillion cool demos
ran into my freind Harry
and met one of my heroiine’s Joy.. who ‘outed’ the issue of bias in AI facial recognition
then met for a great dinner wiht part of our team.. mark, ben. dimitri and kristjen.
Spent a good day at work while Diane enjoyed hanging out in Cambridge. Went to a nice cocktail party where we met Martin Gardner, the author of the Multiple Intelligences’ books.. Then had a really nice dinner with our friends Sara and Dan Not much more to report.
Diane and I are down in Cambridge together. It’s so good having her with me ! We got down here in time to meet our friends Elsa and Cyril for sonnet . I got to use the free meal i won in the vindaloo curry eating contest a few weeks back !
Afterwards we met up with our friend Tyler from home.
It’s so fun showing Diane what my life is like down here
