I think the best thing you can do right now is to play around. If AI is going to take some pieces of your job or it's going to be a part of the future, for me, it's just playing around. It's exploring with the tools. And little by little, I'm going to find those pieces that I can integrate into my own life and also build the skill set in ways that are specific to adding value to what it is that I do.
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.