On top of the internet, then people said, Hey, I want to sell things online. And so you get like Shopify that allows people who want to sell products online to have this nice interface where they can then integrate with payments and other infrastructure. So that's like those second level products. And then there's all these creators who use those different things and talk about them online. That to me is actually very similar to what's happening in AI and just might be more broadly understandable.
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.