" diffusion is a mathematical like probability distribution that just samples from a distribution and then adds noise," he says. "You remember those old TVs that you're like changing the internet so like get the signal kind of like, that's a perhaps a good metaphor to think about it." The breakthroughs have been in technology but also our internal mental models of how we use image-recognition software for advertising or film work.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Cristobal Valenzuela, founder of Runway, to talk about using AI to edit and create videos (3:00), starting out at art school (6:50), quitting his job and starting the company in 2018 (8:30), his art career (9:30), rushing to raise money before his visa ran out (14:10), the critical breakthroughs (16:45), what “diffusion” is (18:30), the future of film (21:00), zero-cost content (28:30), coming to America from Chile (33:00), and the challenge of recruiting people (36:20).
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