AI agents create content from the online and real-world zeitgeist. This is one of the epiphanies from a thirty-second music creation experiment. See the Korner for more details on that ViodiTV experiment. But first, we will focus on a key leader in the rural broadband industry. This leader has been prominent for the past couple of decades.
ViodiTV Soundbites with Shirley Bloomfield on Rural Broadband Success
Shirley Bloomfield has been a tireless advocate for NTCA members and their biggest cheerleader. She did a great job representing them in Washington and beyond. This collection of clips from ViodiTV interviews with her provides an overview of her advocacy for rural America.
The Automatic Camera Cleaner for Clear Autonomous Driving
There are generally two camps when it comes to the topic of autonomous vehicle sensing: 1) Camp Fusion believes that fusing multiple sensor types—vision, LiDAR, radar, etc.—is a prerequisite for safety. 2) On the other side, Camp Vision argues that high-resolution cameras, coupled with massive training datasets and inference compute, offer a simplicity and cost structure that beats the “extrasensory” advantages of the fusion approach. However, one criticism dogs the camera-only approach: cameras need to see. Enter Maxell with a compact new contender that leverages the physics of sound to keep the robot’s eyes clear.
Optimizing Locally Run AI
In the fast-moving world of on-device AI, the gap between a high-performing model and a functional product is often a hardware bottleneck. By rebuilding models to speak the hardware’s native language, Opt AI allows complex vision and language models to run locally without a cloud connection.
Some Chirps and Short Thoughts:
- Lots of good content in episode 66 of the Epik Mellon podcast. Gavin Young brings that end-to-end view from the device all the way through the network. Having a software-driven network with containerization (particularly in the residential gateway) allows for mass customization of offers. This type of network allows for faster failures/learning’s/improvements.
- Vodafone’s Jonathan Newton CEng and Intel’s Andrew Duignan document the Broadband Forum’s L4S Innovation Demonstration at Network X. As they explain here, the Broadband Forum’s work, WT-519, based on IETF technology, will help operators dramatically reduce latency caused by queuing delays in broadband networks.
- Is this the start of a multi-plane mesh communications network?
- This proposal before the FCC seems like it would have an impact on the nascent Wi-Fi HaLOW market as well.
The Korner – Next Step: Autonomous Music Producer Agents
The first thought was this song and associated image just more AI slop. But, the speed and quality point to something larger; something that is probably already happening. Clearly, there is a path where the human is removed from the music-making loop.
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