We're getting a lot closer to the point where human involvement isn't massive in certain areas. It's like this bicycle of the mind, if you will, from Steve Jobs back in the day about what a computer can do. And so I think that's an interesting frame to just consider that, well, AI might become so good later where actually no human involvement exists. But in the meantime, it really is this supercharger for whatever you're trying to 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.