Is There a Future for AI?

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Some jobs will go and others will stay, but AI is a long way away from competing with someone who lives a fascinating life. I like the idea of technology pushing us to be better. If you're a writer or an artist, consider either what can I do that AI can't do? Or what can I now do better with the AI on my side? And one final prediction. I'm scared.

For years, people thought that artificial intelligence would wipe out repetitive tasks, but leave the creatives untouched. But recent developments have left many people surprised and taken the creative world by storm.

Tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion gave anyone with a keyboard and a wifi connection the ability to spin up images from text prompts, far earlier and higher quality than many imagined.

So what comes next for the artists... the writers... the musicians...? No one knows for sure, but in this episode Cal and Steph discuss the exciting new world of generative AI. They discuss what it is (and isn't), the tools they've played with, how culture and trust are shifting, who "wins" in this new world, and what they think might be on the horizon.