Episode 390 – Steady Diffusion’s Inventive Director
Stability AI is the corporate behind Steady Diffusion, a strong, free and open-source text-to-image generator that launched in August 2022. Since launching, Steady Diffusion has been downloaded and licensed by greater than 200,000 builders globally. Stability AI’s consumer-facing product DreamStudio shortly grew to effectively over one million registered customers from greater than 50 international locations who collectively have created greater than 170 million photographs.
Headquartered in London with builders distributed throughout the globe, Stability AI was based by Emad Mostaque as the primary open-source, synthetic intelligence (AI) firm growing breakthrough applied sciences for the good thing about humanity and the world.
On this Podcast (recorded in November 2022), Inventive Director for Stability AI Invoice Cusick talks concerning the inventive imaginative and prescient behind Steady Diffusion and its potential software in artwork and filmmaking, the which means of AI within the historical past of humanity; and why artists ought to get excited concerning the existence of AI artwork (as an alternative of viewing it as competitors)!
Stability AI Web site: https://stability.ai/faq
Steady Diffusion: https://stability.ai/weblog/stable-diffusion-public-release
Stability AI Broadcasts $101 Million in Funding for Open-Supply Synthetic Intelligence: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/stability-ai-announces-101-million-in-funding-for-open-source-artificial-intelligence-301650932.html
Stability AI on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/websites/kenrickcai/2022/09/07/stability-ai-funding-round-1-billion-valuation-stable-diffusion-text-to-image/?sh=5d8ad7cd24d6
EPISODE 390 – STABLE DIFFUSION’S CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Hello, everybody!
That is Allan McKay. Welcome to Episode 390! I’m talking with Inventive Director for Stability AI Invoice Cusick. Stability AI creates Steady Diffusion and DreamStudio, of which, I’m positive, you’ve already heard!
We speak about artwork and AI, together with ethics of AI artwork. I’ve spoken to a whole lot of artists who’ve been utilizing AI of their artwork and filmmaking. However I believed it’d be worthwhile to talk to somebody on the forefront of this area.
Invoice and I speak about:
- Inventive imaginative and prescient for Stability AI;
- Steady Diffusion, DALL-E 2, DreamStudio;
- The backlash towards AI paintings;
- The therapeutic worth of AI;
- The which means of AI within the historical past of humanly;
- Potential functions of AI in filmmaking;
- And why artists ought to get excited concerning the existence of AI artwork (as an alternative of viewing it as competitors)!
I’d love to listen to your ideas on this topic as effectively.
Let’s dive in!
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FROM ALLAN McKAY:
[01:17] Have you ever ever despatched in your reel and questioned why you didn’t get the callback or what the rationale was you didn’t get the job? Over the previous 20 years of working for studios like ILM, Blur Studio, Ubisoft, I’ve constructed a whole lot of groups and employed a whole lot of artists — and reviewed hundreds of reels! That’s why I made a decision to put in writing The Final Demo Reel Information from the angle of somebody who really does the hiring. You may get this guide at no cost proper now at www.allanmckay.com/myreel!
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Okay, what did you suppose? I need to thank Invoice for approaching the Podcast.
Subsequent week, I’m interviewing Co-President of MARZ Lon Molnar about leveraging the corporate’s know-how improvements and the event of the de-aging know-how; optimistic outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic within the area of VFX — and a lot extra!
Till then –
Rock on!
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