We sit down with the founder of Stability AI, Emad Mostaque, on the heels of his $101 million fund-raising round. His open-source Stable Diffusion image generator is the key to unlocking creativity, he says, and “one of the ultimate tools for freedom of expression” — as long as it stays out of the hands of a few censorious tech giants. So what’s this former hedge fund manager turned tech mogul thinking about how this technology could be used — or misused? Plus: A.I. Kevin and A.I. Casey stop by.
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Casey, I have a surprise for you.
Okay.
So last week on the show, you made a promise to listeners that our show would always be human, that we would never replace ourselves with AI.
That's right.
Well, I took that as a challenge.
Oh, no.
So I have spent the past week building an AI version of you.
No, for real?
Yeah.
I sent many, many hours of audio of you talking to a company called Play, which is an AI startup, and had them build me AI versions of you and of me.
Oh, no.
Do you want to hear it?
Yes.
Okay.