"We were fascinated by the idea of really taking early computer AI systems and rethinking them in the purpose for the purpose of creativity," he says. "It took me like 11 years to come back to my first art project ever, which was actually called Text to Video ... I had this exhibition in a museum in Chile where people just typed in the typewriter."
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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