
371: ‘The Skin of Your Pants’, With Daniel Jalkut
The Talk Show With John Gruber
The Importance of Image Generation
The first time you used Mac paint back in the day and you use the paint can tool, flood fill, it was like magic. It's just flood fill 40 years later where now instead of just telling the computer to fill in the elephant with gray, I can say, show me a photorealistic elephant storming into the lobby of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. "It doesn't feel like there's an intelligent being on the other end," he says about image generation versus chat.
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