Episode 123

I spoke with Suhail Doshi about:

* Why benchmarks aren’t prepared for tomorrow’s AI models

* How he thinks about artists in a world with advanced AI tools

* Building a unified computer vision model that can generate, edit, and understand pixels.

Suhail is a software engineer and entrepreneur known for founding Mixpanel, Mighty Computing, and Playground AI (they’re hiring!).

Reach me at [email protected] for feedback, ideas, guest suggestions.

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Outline:

* (00:00) Intro

* (00:54) Ad read — MLOps conference

* (01:30) Suhail is *not* in pivot hell but he *is* all-in on 50% AI-generated music

* (03:45) AI and music, similarities to Playground

* (07:50) Skill vs. creative capacity in art

* (12:43) What we look for in music and art

* (15:30) Enabling creative expression

* (18:22) Building a unified computer vision model, underinvestment in computer vision

* (23:14) Enhancing the aesthetic quality of images: color and contrast, benchmarks vs user desires

* (29:05) “Benchmarks are not prepared for how powerful these models will become”

* (31:56) Personalized models and personalized benchmarks

* (36:39) Engaging users and benchmark development

* (39:27) What a foundation model for graphics requires

* (45:33) Text-to-image is insufficient

* (46:38) DALL-E 2 and Imagen comparisons, FID

* (49:40) Compositionality

* (50:37) Why Playground focuses on images vs. 3d, video, etc.

* (54:11) Open source and Playground’s strategy

* (57:18) When to stop open-sourcing?

* (1:03:38) Suhail’s thoughts on AGI discourse

* (1:07:56) Outro

Links:

* Playground homepage

* Suhail on Twitter

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