Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

Cristóbal Valenzuela — The Next Generation of Content Creation and AI

01.19.2023 - By Lukas BiewaldPlay

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Cristóbal Valenzuela is co-founder and CEO of Runway ML, a startup that's building the future of AI-powered content creation tools. Runway's research areas include diffusion systems for image generation. Cris gives a demo of Runway's video editing platform. Then, he shares how his interest in combining technology with creativity led to Runway, and where he thinks the world of computation and content might be headed to next. Cris and Lukas also discuss Runway's tech stack and research. Show notes (transcript and links): http://wandb.me/gd-cristobal-valenzuela --- ⏳ Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:06 How Runway uses ML to improve video editing 6:04 A demo of Runway’s video editing capabilities 13:36 How Cris entered the machine learning space 18:55 Cris’ thoughts on the future of ML for creative use cases 28:46 Runway’s tech stack 32:38 Creativity, and keeping humans in the loop 36:15 The potential of audio generation and new mental models 40:01 Outro ---

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