Day 7: He rested and talked about why Dalle 2 is just the beginning

Hello Reader,

It is my seventh post after doing this for over seven days. I’ve been taking breaks, so this won’t be daily, but I’m hoping closer to daily than not. I want this to be an end of day recap space that hopefully leads into more of a focused space, but as with the universe I to do not no what to do with some of my days.

I’m going where the wind blows me.

I’m watching The Sandman on Netflix and it is the real deal. I’m so shocked that they took this story that is pretty much all vibes and managed to weave a plot through it. It’s honestly one of the most well-done adaptations of a difficult source material I think that has even been pulled off. Go check it out. Maybe I’ll write a whole blog on the genius of this adaptation at some point and it better not be a post mortem if Netflix cancels it. *I SHAKE MY FISTS TO THE SKY THAT HOLDS ALL THAT IS* they better not do it.

Now, I’ve been fascinated with AI at a seemingly exponentially rate with the image generators such as midjourney and Dalle2 gracing the world with its mind bending glimpse of the future. And I do believe it’s the future and here is why.

I come from Hollywood where I have seen the most resourced projects get made and you too I imagine have sat through the credits of a movie and seen all the people that contribute to get something made. It might seem benign or even something that didn’t provoke much thought, but more often than not I look at that list in amazement. Credits are gobsmacking. No they are GOD-smacking.

As a person who has ran a microcosm studio and produced a lot of things and I have to say managing creatives has been the single most difficult thing I’ve ever done. The only solution is often luck or money — LOTS OF MONEY. The infrastructure of Hollywood is literally the corralling of “creative” types. As my partner Amy pointed out — to be an artist means deeply ignoring any influence of the outside world which makes it a bit hard to understand contracts, expectations, budgets, and so on. Dune (2021) might be the single greatest feat of Hollywood. It is the best of what humans can do and I doubt we will do much better before AI takes the reins.

What we’re seeing right now and if you look at the title image of my blogs it is mostly AI generated art and it is incredibly impressive. Type anything into a magic box and it will generate something in seconds that would take even the most skilled designer hours to do. This technology is in its infancy. We are seeing the first creation of a photograph and it’s eventually going to result in Dune, more or less.

The advancement of technology is so extreme that we could see the AI Dune movie closer than we can fathom and as someone who has managed creatives there is a ton of motivation to figure this out. The pain point of an AI god that visualizes your text, your words, your thoughts, your dreams… it’s coming. And it’s going to be a mind-altering age. We will literally exist in a dreamworld of not only our own making, but collectively.

You can look at anything on TikTok with #aiart and you will see what I’m talking about. Go to Dalle2 and create a “red headed human” and you will get a myriad of facial images of this person. You can put it in a something free and simple like Avatarify and watch this human that’s never existed blink at smile at you. The deep-fake stuff is also getting exponentially better. ILM that made the best visual effects our movies have ever held are now brining in these solo-hacker types that are creating systems that make them look like Tom Cruise near flawlessly.

As with the first photograph eventually people realized that they can put 34 of these together every second and people will see a moving image, a movie. Dalle2 and the other sibling companies of AI art must be moving towards this. What if Dalle2 made 340 images to create a 10 second clip? I mean it makes 4 in 20 seconds, so it is possible for it to inprint a person walking from one corner of the room to another with enough information. I believe this will be the future, the copying of assets from a hero image that allows you to make your characters, your environment, your story.

We are headed to a convergence point and the thing with this progress, this type of creative machine is it doesn’t have to rest like we do.

And I am terrified and excited to see it.

But most of all go watch The Sandman… I selfishly don’t want to wait for the AI to finish it.

Consider me old-fashioned.

until next time,

cheerio,

kyle