Bilawal Sidhu is a creator and technologist working on spatial computing and AI. On 2DIAMR, Bilawal Sidhu described building a live 4D globe from open data with AI agents, and where Gaussian splats and self-healing maps are heading.
Episode
1 h 57 minIn Bilawal’s words
“If you aggregate GPS confidence on these H3 cells, you can see where is GPS jamming happening.”
“I think the first self-healing map of the world that we'll get is a machine-readable one, not a human-readable one.”
“Personally, I want a 3D Gaussian splat of the entire world.”
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Questions Bilawal answered
- How do flight tracking and ship tracking apps get their data?
- Per Bilawal Sidhu, planes broadcast their position over ADS-B and ships over AIS; tens of thousands of volunteers with cheap receivers collect these unencrypted signals, and NORAD publishes satellite orbit data (TLEs). ▶ 1:38
- Can you see GPS jamming in public flight data?
- Yes, per Bilawal Sidhu: aircraft also broadcast their GPS confidence, and aggregating it on H3 hexagon cells shows where GPS jamming is happening. ▶ 2:46
- Is it safe to give an AI agent like OpenClaw access to your computer?
- Bilawal Sidhu ran OpenClaw on a separate old Mac with its own email and iCloud, read-only calendar access and forwarded emails only – treating it like a new employee – and advises anyone experimenting to start slow. ▶ 13:21
- Can Wi-Fi or motion sensors track people without GPS?
- Bilawal Sidhu says Wi-Fi/RF sensing can detect presence and track movement inside a home, and AI models can reconstruct realistic trajectories from a phone’s or watch’s IMU motion data alone, with no GPS. ▶ 51:26
- How can dark-fleet ships be tracked when AIS is switched off?
- Per Bilawal Sidhu, besides shore receivers, satellites and SAR imagery, one effective method is location data collected by games and apps the crew use on board – a dual-use example Bilawal finds ethically uncomfortable. ▶ 60:10
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