CLIPS
AI Will Replace Tasks, Not Responsibility
Hype Clears Tech Debt
Who Gets the Budget
Waymo drove straight into a flood
EPISODE
Mark Munsell is Distinguished Fellow of Artificial Intelligence at Lindenwood University and Executive Director at GeoSTL. He is also Former Chief AI Officer at the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. As such, he has rich experience for us to mine. We used it to navigate the AI hype and transition from LLMs to world models. If you want to get an impression of him outside this episide, here he is at SC25 talking about Pixels, Petabytes, Predictions (and Possibilities!):
He was also recently published in The Cypher Brief.
EPISODE TOPICS:
What Mark achieved as an inventor.
His reflections on hype cycles after a career in geospatial.
Using this experience to examine the meaning of world models.
Notable achievements by world model companies.
GEOINT use case: Venezuela and the US.
Mark's ambitions for St Louis: GeoSTL.
How the World Model 500 can help.
