The Footnote That Runs the World-Johan Jensen Died in 1925. He’d Never Seen a Computer. Stable Diffusion Runs His Math Every Second

Author(s): DrSwarnenduAI Originally published on Towards AI. The Footnote That Runs the World His name was Johan. Lets pay our homage today!This article explores the significant yet often unrecognized contributions of Johan Jensen, a telephone engineer whose mathematical insights have become foundational to modern AI technologies such as Stable Diffusion and generative models. It delves into Jensen’s work, presenting his inequality as a crucial principle in understanding how average values relate differently depending on the application of functions to distributions, highlighting the implications of this inequality in contemporary AI frameworks like Variational Autoencoders and diffusion models. The piece not only underscores Jensen’s legacy but also raises critical questions about the future trajectory of generative AI and its reliance on mathematical principles established decades ago. Read the full blog for free on Medium. Join thousands of data leaders on the AI newsletter. Join over 80,000 subscribers and keep up to date with the latest developments in AI. From research to projects and ideas. If you are building an AI startup, an AI-related product, or a service, we invite you to consider becoming a sponsor. Published via Towards AI