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Cord also underscores the significance of edge devices—like AI cameras and sensors—which produce enormous amounts of data that need to be intelligently stored, processed, and utilized. These innovations pose new challenges in data architecture, storage, and retrieval but also open avenues for transformative AI capabilities.
Towards Artificial Awareness and AGI
A nuanced part of Cord’s discourse revolves around the quest for artificial consciousness or awareness—what many term as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). He speaks passionately about his personal projects, such as "Meta," which employs search, vision, and machine learning pipelines to imbue machines with a form of contextual understanding.