Ben Vigoda
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TED Talk
When Machines Have Ideas, 2016 “When we build stories into machine intelligence systems, we should enable them to attach probabilities to their stories. Weighing alternatives stories is important, because it builds solid foundations. If the system weighs stories against each other and sometimes returns to earlier stories, readjusting them or reconsidering its beliefs, then the…
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Product Genius AI
Product Genius has a created a new foundation AI for realtime interaction and learning. Helping small and medium businesses grow by bringing state-of-the-art AI to power their online experiences.
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The Q@YS – Music
Dan Paluska, Grant Kristofek, and Ben Vigoda. Dan builds robots, Grant builds fusion reactors, and I build AI. We plan to take over the world.
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First Commercial Deep Learning Chips
I was the founder and CEO of Lyric Semiconductor, Inc. which developed grew out of my PhD work at MIT. We developed the world’s first digital tensor processing units for machine learning, providing over 1,000x Joules/Ops power wins for machine learning workloads. We were acquired by ADI, and our technology incorporated into wireless infrastructure, medical…
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Games for Song
Games for Song is a collection of games for collaborative musical improvisation. Let a game become a song.
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Design That Matters
In 2001 I asked some friends at the MIT what would happen if, hypothetically, we were to give an MIT technology tour for a visiting Bangladesh women’s collective. This question led to a student-led for-credit seminar to engage engineering students with developing technologies for under-served communities, then a global conference involving NGOs from thirteen countries,…
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Drum-o-Saurus
The problem with drums in the city is they are too large for small spaces, and too loud for the neighbors! Plus drums are heavy and bulky to move. The problem with digital/electronic drums is that they are not like playing real drums. They feel like holding your lover’s hand with pliers. No feel. No…
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Family Halloweens
We make costumes for halloween
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5 Tiger Morning
I used AI to generate scenes for this short film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep3PhY35nyA. Original music by improvised by my bandmates and I, Quality at Your Service (q@ys).
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ADI Garage
After my startup Lyric was acquired, I led it as a growing machine learning chipset division for Analog Devices, Inc. and also the corporate research labs.
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Jamioki
Is it possible to improvise a symphony? We made technology to let it become possible.
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The Mustn’t Grumble
Avant-garde folk Parisian swing music. Listen to us play on Hudson Valley National Public Radio Live at the Linda. With over 500,000 monthly listeners, WAMC ranks among the most-listened-to public radio stations in the United States.
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Experimental Musical Instrument Workshop at MIT
I led the Experimental Musical Instruments Workshop At Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and hosted John Zorn as our Guest Artist. Many of our new instruments were playable, but didn’t yet have any manner of musical notation. The question was therefore, “How do we learn to play these instruments in an ensemble?” We used John Zorn’s…
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Virtual Juggling for the Flying Karamazov Brothers
I built the first virtual juggling system for the Flying Karamazov Brothers, and they toured with it for over a decade. I wrote the code in C++ and OpenCV. At the time it required us to assemble the most sophisticated GPU cluster available; There was no such thing as a GPU cloud and even if…
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