Summaries Artificial Intelligence and Technology The Future of Generative AI and Its Societal Impact with Stability AI's Emad Mostaque

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AI technology has the potential to revolutionize many sectors, but its implications must be considered and regulated to ensure it is used to unlock humanity's potential.

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  00:00

  Iman Mustac Ahmad joins Logan Bartlett to discuss the potential of Artificial Intelligence and how it differs from competitors like Open AI.
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  07:46

  Computers have become increasingly powerful, allowing them to understand language, generate photorealistic images, and even play Go at a higher level than humans.
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  13:45

  AI has been used to analyze literature, create open source models, generate art, and raise money for India Code Relief, showing its potential to change the world.
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  19:15

  Stable Diffusion, an open source project funded by Stability AI, has become the most popular software in the world, with 46,000 GitHub Stars and 25 million downloads, and has enabled Lenser, a powerful AI app, to become 100x faster.
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  23:54

  Technology is revolutionizing the creative industry, unlocking the power of creativity and providing productivity gains, yet its implications must be considered.
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  30:59

  Society must consider ethics, morals, and legal boundaries when discussing access to powerful technology, and Thrive provides open source models and scaling services to make models accessible on mobile.
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  42:07

  AI and automation are revolutionizing many sectors, from healthcare to music, with open source technology and deep learning models.
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  48:58

  AI technology could be used to unlock Humanity's potential or be controlled by large organizations, while the US, UK, and EU have different stances on regulation, and it's been tiring but rewarding to manage the largest open source community in history.

Key insights

Advancements in AI capabilities and potential

• 🧠 These generative AI models have moved from a big data era to a big model era, where they can not only predict based on given data but also self-create and act on other information, making them more advanced and versatile.
• 🤯 Deep Blue beating Gary Kasparov in chess was a significant historical point that showcased the power of AI in thinking more moves ahead and outperforming humans.
• 📈 The exponential increase in compute availability has led to advancements in AI, allowing computers to think in brand new ways and surpass human capabilities.
• 🌟 The attention-based system in the Transformer architecture led to breakthroughs like GPT-3, which is an AI model that can write like a human.
• 💡 The breakthrough in AI models is no longer about the size of the data set, but rather the amount of compute power applied to the models, allowing them to get bigger and more advanced.
• 🎨 Emad Mostaque shares his experience of using AI to generate art, highlighting the amazing capabilities of the system in creating unique and stylistic images based on a vision board and descriptions.
• 🚀 Stability AI's Robin and Patrick achieved amazing things by compressing a hundred thousand gigabytes of images into a 1.6 gigabyte file that can create just about anything.
• 🚀 The power of generative AI is becoming increasingly disruptive, with exponential increases in speed and capabilities, such as the ability to process 30 images per second.
• 📱 Language models are incredibly difficult to make work on the edge, but Stable AI has announced a 20 times speed up with distilled stable diffusion, making it possible for language models to work on an iPhone without internet in just one or two seconds.

Societal impact and implications of generative AI

• 💡 The future of generative AI holds the potential for creating real-time movies and having a significant societal impact.
• 💡 "AI is possibly the most powerful thing we've ever seen because human level means a lot right and the only people that could build that are basically the big tech companies Plus open Ai and a couple of others and none of them wanted to release it open because it is powerful and Powerful means also dangerous right."
• 💡 The ability to create real-time movies with customizable features removes barriers to creation and has the potential to revolutionize the creative process.
• 💡 The future of generative AI has the potential to revolutionize the rendering industry and create and destroy assets in real-time, raising questions about the future of this industry.
• 🎥 Stability AI is focused on developing media models at scale, including the ability to generate entire movies, which could revolutionize the film industry.

Open development and regulation of generative AI

• 🌍 The speaker believes that generative AI should be open source and accessible to everyone, as it is seen as infrastructure just as important as the internet for the next step in human ability.
• 💻 The move towards open development of generative AI widens the discussion and allows for policy debates, ensuring that society has a say in the use and impact of these technologies.
• 🌐 "I think it should all be regulated... instead of it being just decided behind closed doors."

Detailed summary

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  00:00

  Iman Mustac Ahmad joins Logan Bartlett to discuss the potential of Artificial Intelligence and how it differs from competitors like Open AI.

  • Iman Mustac Ahmad, founder and CEO of Stable Civility AI, joins Logan Bartlett to discuss the state of Artificial Intelligence, its potential, and how it differs from competitors like Open AI.
  • We appreciate your support in liking, subscribing, reviewing, and sharing our podcast, and now you can hear the conversation with the founder of Stability AI.
  • Generative AI is an extension of Big Data models used to target ads to people based on their interests.
  • Generative AI has moved us from a big data era to a big model era, allowing models to self-create and predict new data.
  • Self-driving cars have difficulty recognizing objects that are not in their training set.
  • Deep learning breakthroughs in 2017 have enabled AI to reach human levels of performance in narrow areas such as playing chess and go, and other areas such as protein folding.
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  07:46

  Computers have become increasingly powerful, allowing them to understand language, generate photorealistic images, and even play Go at a higher level than humans.

  • Go players' average level has increased exponentially due to computers thinking in new ways and learning principles to do moves.
  • Attention-based systems focusing on the most important parts of a dataset led to breakthroughs like OpenAI's GPT-3, which can write stories in the style of Lord of the Rings.
  • Supercomputers use a large amount of data to find connections between words and images to understand sentences.
  • Large language models have become more accessible and proliferated due to increased compute power, allowing them to reach human-level performance in answering questions.
  • Teams around the world led by OpenAI, Meta, and other places have developed models that can generate photorealistic images in about a second.
  • I was lucky to have a unique path to the forefront of technology, having been a hedge fund manager and video game investor.
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  13:45

  AI has been used to analyze literature, create open source models, generate art, and raise money for India Code Relief, showing its potential to change the world.

  • AI was used to analyze literature to identify commonalities in autism and potential treatments to balance brain Gaba and glutamate levels.
  • AI technology has the potential to change the world, and has been used in education and refugee camps, as well as in the UN's response to COVID-19.
  • Stability is a mission-based organization with a profit-based focus on making open source models available to everyone and customizing and scaling them.
  • I got involved with open source project stable diffusion two and a half years ago at Luther AI to build an open source version of GPT3 after Open AI stopped releasing stuff due to Microsoft's investment.
  • A system was built to generate art based on a vision board, resulting in 16 images that were interpreted to generate 16 more.
  • India code relief raised $3,500 from an NFT generated 8 hours later by a person with aphantasia, a condition where they can't visualize anything.
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  19:15

  Stable Diffusion, an open source project funded by Stability AI, has become the most popular software in the world, with 46,000 GitHub Stars and 25 million downloads, and has enabled Lenser, a powerful AI app, to become 100x faster.

  • Robin Ronback and Andreas Blackman's paper on Latent Diffusion led to the breakthrough of the Stable Diffusion Model, which optimized for high-speed diffusion without access to many GPUs.
  • Catherine Crowston Rivers, Robin, Bjorn Oman, and Patrick from Runway.ML collaborated to release the original stable diffusion in August under LMU Confids.
  • Stable Diffusion, an open source project funded by Stability AI, is the most popular software in the world, compressing 100,000 gigabytes of images into a 1.6 gigabyte file.
  • In just three months, the open source software has received 46,000 GitHub Stars, overtaking Bitcoin and Ethereum, and has been downloaded 25 million times, making it the most popular open source software ever.
  • Lenser, a powerful AI app, is becoming exponentially more powerful, with a 100x speed increase from 5.6 seconds to 0.9 seconds for an image.
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  23:54

  Technology is revolutionizing the creative industry, unlocking the power of creativity and providing productivity gains, yet its implications must be considered.

  • Generating whole movies in real-time disrupts the entire creative industry, allowing users to input assets and generate a movie about any topic.
  • Using this technology, companies can drastically reduce creation costs and bring videos to market up to 4 times faster.
  • This technology unlocks the power of creativity in imagery, allowing people to create and share content in real time.
  • Creativity is an effective therapy for mental health and will be made more accessible with the removal of barriers next year.
  • Technology has always led to productivity gains, yet full employment is still possible.
  • Technology is not neutral and will create and destroy, so it is important to consider the implications of its rapid adoption.
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  30:59

  Society must consider ethics, morals, and legal boundaries when discussing access to powerful technology, and Thrive provides open source models and scaling services to make models accessible on mobile.

  • Stable diffusion is a powerful technology that has opened up the discussion to millions of developers, governments, media studios, and the public, leading to positive outcomes so far.
  • Society must consider ethics, morals, and legal boundaries when discussing access to powerful technology.
  • Large companies focus on ads and use persuasive technology, but regulation and governance structures are needed to ensure it is used responsibly.
  • We offer open source models that can be customized to your own experiences, and we provide scaling services for a fee.
  • We are vertically integrated with our own products and services, providing a layer one for AI and supporting the whole sector.
  • Thrive will have a mixture of specialized models for text, language, images, and proteins, as well as large multimodal models, to make models accessible on mobile.
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  42:07

  AI and automation are revolutionizing many sectors, from healthcare to music, with open source technology and deep learning models.

  • Open AI has combined deep learning and reinforcement learning with human feedback to create more optimized models with faster integration and feedback.
  • AI researchers are working to make it easier to create photorealistic 3D and video content with a 1.6 gigabyte file that can run on an iPhone without internet.
  • Open source technology can be used to personalize healthcare and bio, saving billions of dollars, and setting standards for neural engine optimization.
  • This technology is affecting all sectors and the question is who to partner with to go out with this infrastructure and who to do ourselves.
  • AI and automation are being used in unexpected ways, such as creating 3D VR simulations and synthetic data to identify cancer.
  • Refusion is a technology that can generate new music from spectrograms, and its implications for creative and manual workspaces are yet to be seen.
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  48:58

  AI technology could be used to unlock Humanity's potential or be controlled by large organizations, while the US, UK, and EU have different stances on regulation, and it's been tiring but rewarding to manage the largest open source community in history.

  • Nobody knows the knock-on effects of AI technology, but it could be used to activate Humanity's potential or be controlled by large organizations to service more ads.
  • The US is trying to figure out its stance on AI regulation, while the UK is forward-thinking and the European government is looking to ban general purpose AI, which will cause them to fall behind.
  • It has been tiring and stressful to manage the largest open source community in history, but it has also had its positives.
  • We need to build a great, transparent organization full of great people to counterbalance the centralization of power.
  • Having a group of people around to offer advice and keep you level-headed helps you make decisions without relying solely on your gut.
  • This episode discussed the transition from founder-led companies to process driven companies, and the exponential growth of real-time stable diffusion apps and chat GPT.