I think I come a lot back to the history of visual effects and VFX to try to understand what we're experiencing right now with AI. It's still hard to understand exactly what the toy story of like 20 years would look like because we're still in the 80s, he says. We're trying we're starting to see like the first Star Wars movies being made but it's like people are being skeptical about it. The noise is not there so yeah it's not there yet it's gonna get there.
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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