Creative Technology and Generative AI with Bilawal Sidhu

Generative AI is accelerating creativity: complicated creative tasks that once took hours can now take only a minute. My conversation with @bilawal spans the transformative impact of creative tools like Midjourney, Neural Radiance fields, ControlNet, Ebsynth, phone-based photogrammetry, and the potential to "reskin reality" as generative technologies fuse with augmented reality. We also talk about his journey and success as a creatorpreneur, with words of wisdom for anyone hoping to combine their creative passion with entrepreneurship...and finish up with some of the risks and opportunities around generative artificial intelligence, as well as our different viewpoints around centralized vs. decentralized technologies.

00:00 Introduction
01:50 Reality Capture & GenAI
08:07 Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)
15:23 Reskinning Reality
24:03 Social Prompting
31:38 UFOs and Visual Effects
38:35 Augmented Reality
45:20 TikTok
48:32 AI Power Back to the People?
51:33 Decentralization vs. Centralization
55:02 Metaverse

[ChristianCantrell]

Fantastic conversation. So much insight and creativity.

[bilawal]

Thanks for a super fun conversation Jon! 🙏🏽