AI Avatars - What Do I Look Like When I'm 80

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I think in my first batch of photos, I uploaded photos where I was doing silly things with my face. And my forehead was very scrunched and had a lot of wrinkles. A lot of my AI avatars in that first batch, they had unusually wrinkly forehead to make me look a little bit older than I thought I did. It just brought attention to this thing that I never really thought that much about. So I think it really does just accentuate things. Or in some pictures, you just look a lot older, which is actually a pretty neat use case. There's just so much going on in this space that I can't see slowing down anytime soon.

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.