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00:00 Intro

00:30: Image technology breakthroughs

00:45 The Cognitive Revolution

03:10 Intro to Suhail

03:43 Sponsor

07:04 Suhail’s path to AI

12:57 Suhail’s vision for Playground

17:58 Suhail’s cancellation on Twitter

19:06 AI artists are artists

20:25 Non-AI artists feel threatened by AI

26:47 Suhail on defensibility at AI companies

30:30 Playground’s product roadmap

33:01 Suhail on good design

35:55 Latent space

44:04 Building Playground with lessons learned from Mighty

53:55 Monitoring led to 2x improvement in the product

55:53 How people use Playground

1:03:48 AI is having it’s mobile moment

01:15:12 Finding, investing and building durable AI companies

01:22:06 Suhail’s kid’s best friends may be AI characters

01:23:20 AI religion

01:24:16 Conclusion

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