TED Talks

I have been covering the TED Talks for more than ten years now. The 2023 edition was all about Artificial Intelligence (AI), with some of the most interesting talks I have seen in all those years.

I wrote to Folha de S.Paulo about a surreal talk when TED chief Chris Anderson had his face “deedfaked” in real time while interviewing Tom Graham, Metaphysic’s CEO.

Check out the photo below to see the ‘magic’ – Anderson’s face shows up on Graham’s on the big screen, and even his voice was imitated. A lady from the audience had the pleasure to be transformed into Anderson as well. Quite creepy.

My full report here: Real-time deepfake is used on TED chief during TED talk

I also wrote about Greg Brockman (OpenAI) and the new tools coming to ChatGPT, plus the talks from other AI specialists: the super skeptic Eliezer Yudkowsky, the military expert Alexandr Wang, and the educator San Khan.

My full report here: ChatGPT shows off new tools, as TED ponders AI’s controversial future

TED 2022

I was very happy to get back to the physical TED Talks in 2022 after two years of virtual ones.

I covered it for Folha de S.Paulo and for Ecoa, writing a dozen stories.

TED Conference arranged a brilliant program of speakers, including Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Garry Kasparov, and Adam Mosseri, the Instagram CEO that I interviewed after his talk.