Emad Mostaque: Generative AI as infrastructure for humanity | PIONEERS #1

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Nina Schick speaks to Emad Mostaque, the CEO and Founder of Stability AI, in the first episode of ‘PIONEERS’.

———–CONTENTS ————

00:00 – Introduction
00:15 – Emad’s story
01:56 – Stability’s seed round ($101m)
03:02 – What does Generative AI mean for humanity?
06:57 – Flipping the current model of AI
08:56 – Popularity of Stable Diffusion
12:16 – Why Generative AI should be for the people
14:56 – Tech companies should not control Generative AI
16:08 – Exponential nature of this technology
18:22 – Why academia got left behind in AI research
20:59 – Likely investment in this space
23:05 – Content authenticity and identity standards
25:07 – Explaining training data
31:38 – Risks, Policy and Regulation
35:10 – Generative AI vs blockchain
36:14 – UK and US as Generative AI hubs
38:13 – Emad’s view on global outlook
40:16 – Generative AI and education

Nina and Emad cover:

– Stability’s role in funding the open-source AI research community.
– The immense popularity of Stable Diffusion.
– Generative AI as a new medium of human communication.
– Generative AI’s potential to radically improve current systems encompassing everything from education to healthcare.
– A vision for the Internet in which everyone has their ‘own AI,’ moving ‘intelligence to the edge.’
– Generative AI as a public good — and the dangers of keeping it closed.
– The speed of this technology, which will spread “faster than anything we’ve seen before.”
– The huge investment (hundreds of billions of dollars which will likely go into the sector in the coming years.
– The advent of multi-modal models: video models, 3D models, language models and code models.

EPISODE LINKS:
Stability AI: https://stability.ai/
Emad Mostaque: https://twitter.com/EMostaque

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