co-authored by Jerry Chi and Ilya Kulyatin

Japan is playing a unique, crucial role in the global AI ecosystem. In this post, we go beyond hand-wavy claims like “jApAn is sTiLL iNnoVatiVe” and concretely summarize why Tokyo and Japan are hugely relevant for AI globally (and show that we’re …

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Over the last 2 decades, the creativity I’ve come across in Japan repeatedly induces awe and wonder and tickles my brain. Manga, anime, games, music, movies, shows, ads, architecture, paintings, installations, fashion, funky commercial products… one favorite of mine is art by Takashi Murakami.

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In late September the Dance Diffusion music generation model (beta) was released by Harmonai. Harmonai, backed by Stability AI (which also backed Stable Diffusion), is a deep learning research lab focused on creating open-source generative audio models, supporting researchers and developers with compute grants and community, and …

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There’s a neverending onslaught of bad news of negative trends in Japan. Depreciating yen, aging population, ballooning debt, stagnant GDP, lower ranking in digital competitiveness, dwindling fish population, declining music industry, political scandals… it seems everything is worsening.

But the news media tends to give a …

In 2001, when I was in high school, I applied to Stanford University. I was truly excited about the topic of algorithmic music, and I tried hard to express that in my application. In the US, for some colleges, the essay can matter a lot. Perhaps that's one of the …

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The Stable Diffusion model, just released a few days ago, is all the rage right now, with tons of people generating all sorts of amazing high-quality images, sometimes on par with or even better than OpenAI’s DALL-E 2.

UPDATE 2022–10–07: a new, more beginner-friendly …

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Recently I migrated my existing articles from Medium to my own new website (https://jerrychi.com) in a quick, low-code way. I wanted to have both blog articles and permanent pages (e.g. “About Me” page) and high customizability while spending minimal effort and money.

You can …

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I think humanity will end eventually (whether it takes hundreds or thousands of years). So what’ll we do when the end is near? We’d want to leave our legacy; in other words, we’d want to save humanity’s knowledge and history as data and …

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I’m tremendously curious about the long-term future of artificial intelligence. Understanding human intelligence better may be key to predicting the future of artificial intelligence. Thanks to both old books and recent research, my thinking and predictions have evolved quite a bit in the last few years …

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This document is mainly for sharing with my colleagues and anyone I might work with in the future. But hey, I might as well post it on Medium; maybe someone will find it useful.

Below are principles, values, and best practices I tell myself to follow (both …

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This is a relatively new type of job, and many organizations and people are still in the midst of figuring out what makes a great data science manager.

What does it even mean to be “awesome” in this context? Well, if your team members…

• …are highly motivated …

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The world is teeming with people who have the “data scientist” title but somehow don’t live up to expectations. This problem might be related to the use of the term “fake data scientist,” although I don’t think we should be snobby about academic qualifications etc …

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This project is for my own personal fun and learning. Hopefully it’ll be fun for some to read about my progress as well.

My first (poor) attempt to generate faces. Read on to see how I did this.

Planned approach

I expect this project to have …

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Compared to other fields, machine learning / artificial intelligence seems to have a much higher frequency of super-interesting developments these days. Things that make you say “wow” or even “what a time to be alive!” (as the creator of Two Minute Papers always says)

Disclaimer: I’m not …

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Thoughts on my past (2018) and future (2019~)

I finally decided to start posting on Medium, sure took me long enough. My past blog on Blogger is still there (only 5 posts in 10 years.. hmm I guess I’m not very prolific).

Randomly decided to apply …