Cornell Tech

Yeah.

And there's a great professor at Cornell Tech, Sasha Rush, who has a bunch of tutorials on just basic broadcasting tensor operations.

It's fantastic.

You should check out.

I worked at Microsoft in Beijing, which is where I met James Landay.

Then I came to do my postdoc with him in the US, Cornell Tech, and then Stanford.

And then I opened my research lab in Israel six years ago.

So I've pretty much lived everywhere, and I've traveled intensely through South America and Africa.

So that's the journey we've been on.

I had had a chance, the pleasure of announcing this also at the Content Authenticity Summit here in New York at Cornell Tech.

It was hosted by C2PA, the Creators Content Authenticity Initiative, which Adobe started, and also the news industry's stater's body, the International Press Telecommunication Communications Council, IPTC, a 60-year-old organization that has been operating to provide the news industry with technologies for transmitting news with trust and automation and measurement, right? So that conference that happened on June 4th was a place where I got to spend 10 minutes on a big stage talking about IT.

this new entity, the PBC, the talent identifier, and how it's here to help, ethical licensing of human images, human voices.

But yeah, can you fully reprogram not just the physical spaces and not just the assets like we talked about earlier, but like the entire rhythms of how this happens.

And this is where I mentioned Anthony Townsend earlier, my Cornell Tech colleague in his book.

But I worked with him on a set of scenarios for New York University in 2014 that imagined exactly this, Jonah, that cities, in an effort to rein in all this stuff on their streets, would basically require that delivery would only happen at night.

And so in the nights of cities like Boston, I think we imagined by 2030, the hours of 2 to 5 a.m. is nothing but drones and delivery bots doing their rounds while people are off the streets in an effort to kind of try to keep those traffic separate.

Again, we carry them to the bathroom.

Did you know, according to Cornell Tech, there's more personal information in your cell phone today than your own home? Let's think about that for a second.

Let's kind of let that sink in.

We have these wearable devices, garments, Fitbits, Apple Watches, where a lot of our information kind of coincides with our phone or device.

I really like the point where you mentioned about garbage and garbage out because no matter how strong the model is, if your inputs are not right, you will get garbage out.

You have to be very mindful because I go talk to startups as part of like the Cornell Tech ecosystem.

I'm an alumni and I see a lot of students these days building with agents.

It's so easy just to throw an agent at any problem.

Greg Lindsay is an urbanist in residence at the University of Toronto School of Cities.

And before that, he was a fellow at Cornell Tech.

where he wrote about what AI and augmented reality do at the scale of a whole city.

He co-wrote Aerotropolis.