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00:00 Intro
00:30: Image technology breakthroughs
00:45 The Cognitive Revolution
03:10 Intro to Suhail
03:43 Sponsor
07:04 Suhail’s path to AI
12:57 Suhail’s vision for Playground
17:58 Suhail’s cancellation on Twitter
19:06 AI artists are artists
20:25 Non-AI artists feel threatened by AI
26:47 Suhail on defensibility at AI companies
30:30 Playground’s product roadmap
33:01 Suhail on good design
35:55 Latent space
44:04 Building Playground with lessons learned from Mighty
53:55 Monitoring led to 2x improvement in the product
55:53 How people use Playground
1:03:48 AI is having it’s mobile moment
01:15:12 Finding, investing and building durable AI companies
01:22:06 Suhail’s kid’s best friends may be AI characters
01:23:20 AI religion
01:24:16 Conclusion
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