Los Angeles, California, August 19th 2024 – Stability Al, a leading imaging, language, code and audio generative Al company, today announced the appointment of entertainment industry veteran, Hanno Basse, as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The announcement was made by the company’s CEO, Prem Akkaraju. Hanno is a seasoned CTO with over 30 years of experience helping companies integrate and implement new technologies.
He has most recently served as Chief Technology Officer at Digital Domain, the global visual effects and digital production company, where he guided their technical infrastructure, pipelines, oversaw their research and development, machine-learning projects, and the application of generative Al in Visual Effects production tools and workflows.
- Deduction (The Classic): Reasoning from cause to effect. It derives guaranteed conclusions from a set of premises.
- Induction (The Scientific): Reasoning from a set of specific observations to a general rule. It generalizes and may not be guaranteed to be correct.
- Observation: “Every time I’ve seen it rain, the grass got wet.”
- Conclusion (Induced): “Therefore, the rule is: if it rains, the grass gets wet.”
- Abduction (The Diagnostic): Reasoning from effect to cause. It formulates a likely hypothesis to explain an observation. The hypothesis is plausible, but not guaranteed.
His previous roles include CTO of Microsoft Azure Media and Entertainment, where he oversaw the implementation of Microsoft’s Azure cloud technology, as well as edge and Al technologies, and previously as CTO at 20th Century Fox Film Corp. Hanno is a proud member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and has been awarded 30 separate patents.
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