Sections
0:00 – Intro
2:28 – The Problem with Deep Learning
4:17 – Intelligence is a Cake
5:15 – The Rise of Generative AI
8:00 – Blurry Images
8:54 – HRT is an awesome place to work
11:16 – But why so Blurry?
13:30 – Do our models need to be generative?
15:16 – Siamese Networks
17:53 – Representation Collapse
19:54 – Yann’s Epiphany u0026 Barlow Twins
27:22 – DINO
28:58 – JEPA u0026 World Models
34:09 – But is JEPA good?
36:19 – Welch Labs Book

Special thanks to: Yann LeCun, Stephane Deny, David Fan, Nicolas Ballas

Clip of Yann from 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwFduRA_L6Q

CNN Paper: http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/publis/pdf/lecun-89e.pdf
LeNet-5 paper: http://vision.stanford.edu/cs598_spring07/papers/Lecun98.pdf

Dashcam video
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Car_Driving_Faadou_4K_HDR-_Rural_road_-_Canton_-_327.webm

Image Credits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dota_2_Gameplay_Aug_2017.jpg
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magnificent_CME_Erupts_on_the_Sun_-_August_31.jpg
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V-JEPA2 Robot Arm Videos
https://ai.meta.com/research/vjepa/

PATRONS
Juan Benet, Ross Hanson, Yan Babitski, AJ Englehardt, Alvin Khaled, Eduardo Barraza, Hitoshi Yamauchi, Jaewon Jung, Mrgoodlight, Shinichi Hayashi, Sid Sarasvati, Dominic Beaumont, Shannon Prater, Ubiquity Ventures, Matias Forti, Brian Henry, Tim Palade, Petar Vecutin, Nicolas baumann, Jason Singh, Robert Riley, vornska, Barry Silverman, Jake Ehrlich, Mitch Jacobs, Lauren Steely, Jeff Eastman, Rodolfo Ibarra, Clark Barrus, Rob Napier, Andrew White, Richard B Johnston, abhiteja mandava, Burt Humburg, Kevin Mitchell, Daniel Sanchez, Ferdie Wang, Tripp Hill, Richard Harbaugh Jr, Prasad Raje, Kalle Aaltonen, Midori Switch Hound, Zach Wilson, Chris Seltzer, Ven Popov, Hunter Nelson, Amit Bueno, Scott Olsen, Johan Rimez, Shehryar Saroya, Tyler Christensen, Beckett Madden-Woods, Darrell Thomas, Javier Soto, U007D, Caleb Begly, Rick Rubenstein, Brent Hunsaker, Dan Patterson, Tchsurvives, Alex Adai, Walter Reade, Zyansheep, Walter Reade, Duncan Stannett, Reginald Carey, Jean-Manuel Izaret, dh71633, Adrian Rodriguez, Dimitar Stojanovski, Michael Harder, Peter Maldonado, Emily Pesce, David Johnston, Insang Song, FaeTheWolf, Stephen Taylor, KittenKaboodle, EMatter, PATRICKMCCORMACK, John Beahan, Cameron, Cole Jones, Garrett Thornburg, Jeroen W, Rohit Sharma, GlennB, Emmanuel Cortes, Katie Quinn, Karina C, Cakra WW, Mike Ton, Eric Gometz, MacCallister Higgins, Niko Drossos, David Eraso, Tom Zehle, Steve, Brian Lineburg, rjbl, Michael Loh, Perry Vais, Bengal0, Farhad Manjoo, Sara Chipps, Ellis Driscoll, William Taysom, Will Harmon, CK, Abdullah, Peter Cho, Leo Nikora, Griffin Smith, Ash Katnoria, Alex, Markus Hays Nielsen, Catherine H., Vi, David Dobáš, Peter Wang, Sina Sohangir, Danny Thomas, Julian Francis, Hans Adler, Jiayu Peng, Weston M, Youssouf da Silva, John Thomas, Samuel Costello, Sam Adams, Bryan Liles, Malaya Zemlya, Karl, Vahe Andonians, Mike Doughty, Larry Novelo, Jonas Acres, Ludicrum Rex, Robert Blumofe, Anthony Z, Alex Zhao, Dan Babitch, Nikko Patten

Supporting code: https://github.com/WelchLabs/videos

Created by: Sam Baskin, Pranav Gundu, and Stephen Welch
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