Joshua TopolskyNov 10, 2022
NEW: My wild conversation with Midjourney CEO David Holz about AI "art," new forms of communication, how you make ethical neural nets, and the extremes of what his creation can do. FUN FACT the art for What Future is a collab between ME and MIDJOURNEY. I am so excited to share this with the world — my mind is absolutely blown away by this tech. https://open.spotify.com/episode/77SCXUIe7Dg7jFrXggZW1C?si=0zPUO4fSRWW54RYVjx5ivQ
How Computers Dream with David Holz

Listen to this episode from What Future with Joshua Topolsky on Spotify. What you’re reading right now was written by an artificially intelligent — though not sentient — neural network designed to write descriptions for podcasts. Or was it? You don’t know, and that’s what makes AI so fascinating, cool, and scary. Since Josh loves all of those feelings, he sat down with the founder of controversial AI-generated art startup Midjourney, David Holz, to unpack the future of creativity. Discussed: Porn, therapy, families, Hitler. This one’s a doozy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Show threadJoshua TopolskyNov 10, 2022
The art in question!
Show threadsidepocket
@joshuatopolsky What kind of description did you use to generate it?
Nov 10, 2022 at 9:18pmWeb
Show threadJoshua TopolskyNov 11, 2022
@sidepocket to get to this I used "a brain envisioning future societies in a pyschedelic way" and then worked with variants for a while
Show threadJoshua TopolskyNov 11, 2022
@sidepocket "psychedelic science fiction book cover about the future of society" earlier attempt
Show threadJoshua TopolskyNov 11, 2022
@sidepocket "a robot brain being shattered with visions of the future"
Show threadsidepocketNov 11, 2022
@joshuatopolsky wow, such great results, amazing work! Love the new podcast, btw! -Tony (not really Tony, just one of the Tonys)