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O'Reilly MediaGenerative AI in the Real World: Stefania Druga on Designing for the Next GenerationHow do you teach kids to use and build with AI? That’s what Stefania Druga works on. It’s important to be sensitive to their creativity, sense of fun, and desire to learn. When designing for kids, it’s important to design with them, not just for them. That’s a lesson that has important implications for adults, […]2025-06-2630 min
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - June 12 - Meta’s $15B ScaleAI Power Play, OpenAI’s o3-pro & 90% Price Drop!Hey folks, this is Alex, finally back home! This week was full of crazy AI news, both model related but also shifts in the AI landscape and big companies, with Zuck going all in on scale & execu-hiring Alex Wang for a crazy $14B dollars. OpenAI meanwhile, maybe received a new shipment of GPUs? Otherwise, it’s hard to explain how they have dropped the o3 price by 80%, while also shipping o3-pro (in chat and API). Apple was also featured in today’s episode, but more so for the lack of AI news, comp...2025-06-131h 33
Tool Use - AI ConversationsGoogle Scientist's Insights on AI Education & Tools (ft Dr Stefania Druga)Master AI education and boost AI literacy with insights from Dr. Stefania Druga, Google Gemini research scientist and creator of Cognimates. Explore how to use AI to learn about AI, effective strategies for teaching AI concepts to kids and adults, and the crucial role of hands-on tinkering. We discuss overcoming learning barriers, designing AI tools that augment creativity without stifling imagination (like smart toys vs. real-world learning), the nuances of anthropomorphizing AI, and the future of multimodal AI applications in education and beyond. Learn why user observation and custom eval sets are vital for building truly useful AI tools.2025-04-2244 min
Your AI RoadmapWhy is AI taking off now? Technical Trifecta for AI: GPUs, Big Data, and Machine LearningWhy is AI taking off now? Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek answers a common question given the rapid advances around us in AI. This episode ties previous episodes together.The current hype surrounding AI technology is based on advances in on the trifecta of factors driving its growth: advancements in hardware (GPUs), the size and complexity of data sets, and improvements in machine learning algorithms. She emphasizes the significant investment in the sector and the implications for future AI products and technologies.Episodes Cited that pair with this episodeDeepseek "BONUS DeepSeek...2025-03-0310 min
Ignition SequenceThe Future of Learning: AI and the Next Generation of CreativityHow can we prepare young minds to thrive in an AI-driven world? Imagine a future where children learn coding through playful co-creation, generative AI fosters critical thinking, and education adapts to each student’s unique style.
In this episode of Ignition Sequence, host John Murphy explores the groundbreaking work of Stefania Druga, a research scientist shaping the way we teach and understand artificial intelligence. From her pioneering research at MIT Media Lab to her innovative projects at Google Gemini, Stefania has dedicated her career to making complex technologies accessible and empowering communities around the globe.
What you’ll learn:
1. Demy...2024-12-2053 min
mbanerjeepalmer+listennotes 's Listen Later📅 ThursdAI - Gemma 2, AI Engineer 24', AI Wearables, New LLM leaderboard Podcast: ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: 📅 ThursdAI - Gemma 2, AI Engineer 24', AI Wearables, New LLM leaderboardPub date: 2024-06-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHey everyone, sending a quick one today, no deep dive, as I'm still in the middle of AI Engineer World's Fair 2024 in San Francisco (in fact, I'm writing this from the incredible floor 32 presidential suite, that the team here got for interviews, media and podcasting, and hey to all...2024-06-291h 21
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI - Gemma 2, AI Engineer 24', AI Wearables, New LLM leaderboardHey everyone, sending a quick one today, no deep dive, as I'm still in the middle of AI Engineer World's Fair 2024 in San Francisco (in fact, I'm writing this from the incredible floor 32 presidential suite, that the team here got for interviews, media and podcasting, and hey to all new folks who I’ve just met during the last two days!) It's been an incredible few days meeting so many ThursdAI community members, listeners and folks who came on the pod! The list honestly is too long but I've got to meet friends of the po...2024-06-271h 21
Your AI RoadmapLLMs and Multimodal AI with Dr. Stefania Druga of GoogleIn this episode, Dr. Stefania Druga (she/her), Research Scientist on the Bard (now Gemini) team at Google, shares insights into her work on developing multimodal AI applications. She explains how Bard, a LLM, is trained on a massive amount of internet data, enabling it to understand and generate text, summarize content, and interact with images. They cover the advancements in AI and importance of multimodal capabilities that extend beyond text to include images and other data forms, pushing the boundaries of AI's application in daily life.Stefania Druga Quotes📊 Data Set Siz...2024-04-2949 min