Douglas Eck

Douglas Eck

@douglaseck.bsky.social

Senior Research Director at Google DeepMind in our San Francisco office. I created Magenta (magenta.withgoogle.com) and sometimes find time to be a musician.

611 Followers 201 Following 4 Posts Joined Nov 2024
1 year ago

I think that sentence is a better summary of Ge's position than the title, "GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable."

Sure, push-button AI is boring, but push-button "everything" is boring when it comes to art. I've seen lots of very creative uses of (e.g.) Veo 2 video generation.

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1 year ago
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GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable Recently, AI music company Suno’s CEO was quoted as saying “I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend…

I liked this article by @gewang.bsky.social. "I don’t know what 'AI making art' even means at this point; I barely, if at all, understand 'humans making art'. I am inclined to say, therefore, 'there should be room for that too'."
medium.com/artful-desig...

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1 year ago

Sara's voice. *Happy sigh*

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1 year ago

Let's just jump right into a direct Hello Bryan. It was indeed a great time playing. Please visit Sebastopol!

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