Powering the AI revolution from DeepDream to Dall-E, with Lambda Labs CEO Stephen Balaban

<p>Lex interviews Stephen Balavan, the CEO of Lambda Labs, a company that provides GPU servers, workstations and cloud services for training neural networks. Stephen talks about his background in computer science, economics, and deep learning, and how his interest in AI began with reading Neuromancer by William Gibson. He discusses the history of AI research, the concept of perceptron, and the breakthrough of deep learning in 2012-2014 that enabled machines to recognize and categorize images better than humans. Stephen also talks about working for Perceptio - which started as an API for face recognition, and and later was acquired by Apple.</p><p> </p><p>MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION</p><p> </p><p>Lambda's website: https://bit.ly/3j6nOVI</p><p>CEO's Linkedin profile: https://bit.ly/3HAYhNv</p><p> </p><p>Topics: fintech, artificial intelligence, neural networks, deep learning, generative AI</p><p> </p><p>Companies: Lambda, Perceptio, Prisma, Apple, ChatGPT, Dall-E, Google, DeepDream, Dreamscope</p><p> </p><p>ABOUT THE FINTECH BLUEPRINT</p><p> </p><p>🔥Subscribe to the Fintech Blueprint newsletter to stay at the forefront of Fintech and DeFi: https://bit.ly/3hyhlC2</p><p> </p><p>🤝 Partner with Fintech Blueprint through sponsorships: https://bit.ly/3UZllsV</p><p> </p><p>👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/LexSokolin</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>TIMESTAMPS</p><p> </p><p>1’48”: Stephen’s academic training and how it formed a foundation for his career trajectory</p><p> </p><p>7’17”: The history of facial recognition AI, what a perceptron is, how it fails, and the architecture thereof</p><p> </p><p>11’59”: Deep neural networks advancing facial recognition progress and the social credit score dystopia in China</p><p> </p><p>17’45”: Define DeepDream and deep style - Neural network reverse engineering perceptions, visualisations and hallucinations</p><p> </p><p>22’34”: From DeepDream to Dream Scope (web app) to accelerate image accuracy, and addressing the competition: Prisma’s Lensa</p><p> </p><p>27’38”: The advances in the AI math th