Gabriel Yanagihara

Come with me for a day as an emerging technologies teacher. #luckywelivehi

Can humanoids perform agile, autonomous, long-horizon parkour—based on what they see in the world? We present 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗶𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗼𝘂𝗿 (𝗣𝗛𝗣): a framework that chains dynamic human skills using onboard depth perception for long-horizon traversal. 1/6

It correctly colors the right areas. Feel free to edit away. I hit my image limit.

Testing on some of my old concept art paintings

I did this because I thought GPT-3.5-turbo was going to replace me. In 2022, I was a marketer for a slow-moving Canadian enterprise where everything was manual and nobody was thinking about AI. ChatGPT launched, I became obsessed, started automating my own workflows with GPT. Built simple agents for content, email sequences, campaign analysis. Didn't ask permission. My managers told me it was "cheating" bla bla I doubled down. Started organizing weekly calls with other people across the company who were curious about AI. Just informal, here's what I'm building, here's what's working. Then the CEO noticed. Said "do whatever you want" and asked me to run AI transformation calls with executives. I started training leadership on prompting and building proof-of-concepts for different teams. Within 6 months, I went from marketing to AI Agent Systems Manager at an AI startup. You don't need permission to become the AI person at your company. You need conviction and maybe to be called a cheater by people who don't get it yet. Most orgs won't hire for this role. But if you just start doing it, they'll eventually formalize what you've already built. Just prove the value.

Our education system was built for the industrial age, not the AI age. For decades, we taught everyone the same way, at the same pace, with the same goals. That worked when the world moved slowly. It doesn’t anymore. With AI, we can now hyper-personalize learning for every student based on their background, goals, and pace. Scalable. Efficient. Human-centered. The risk is simple. Education move slowly. AI doesn’t. If we don’t evolve fast enough, entire generations will enter the job market unprepared for reality. In my opinion, the winners will be the ones who act on AI now, not later. @GabrielMY @MichaelHawaii

This is wild. This would have taken me hours on a Wacom back in the day.

Interesting to see it remix and reuse some components from the original image.

Professorship. Seems to have to really align the face exactly the same, but not awful.

Exploring the new Edit with X. Edit Away!

D&D test to see if it can keep similar patterning like Nano Banana does.

Get all the details and takeaways from the event on my latest post: gabrielyanagihara.substack.com/p/tech-career-…

Did you go to the Hawaiʻi Tech Career Pathways Summit? Leading the AI breakout, I was honored to guide leaders across the state in sharing real-world AI governance, risk, and values-based strategies. Mahalo to @UHPresident Wendy Hensel, @Oceanit Dr. Pat Sullivan, thx @COCHawaii

Hawai‘i leaders: hear students and teachers on how AI shows up in class and careers. AI Talk Story at ‘Iolani School! Sept 10. Listen, ask, connect. Seats are limited. RSVP lu.ma/th7gi2r8 #HonoluluTechWeek

Google Veo 3 realism just broke the Internet with FLOW from @GoogleLabs This is 100% Al. And Hawaii has an amazing opportunity right now to ride this new wave of AI. So we're running AI Workshops so you can learn how to make these! gabrielyanagihara.substack.com/p/kauai-is-qui…

Congrats 2025 Grads! @gabrielmy Ranking da craziest 2025 Graduation Lei! 🤙😎 See your alma mater? @HawaiiNewsNow #hawaii

Google Gemini Can be tied into all of your Google data and tools. So it can be proactive and message you. Having AI start the conversations is a huge shift. #googleio @googleio @GoogleLabs

Google I/O launched stitch for UI designs for mobile and web applications. Would love to see AI tool for web UI design integrated into Google sites. #googleio

Creators are bringing their wildest ideas to life with Veo 2. 🎨

Excited to introduce Featured Presenter @GabrielMY who will be presenting on AI. Registration opening soon. #KSEdTech #808educate