An interview with David Holz, Leap Motion co-founder and Midjourney founder, on creating the AI art generator, using Discord to build its community, and more
James Vincent / The Verge : Tweets: @daspetey , @jjvincent , and @jjvincent Tweets: Pete Mitchell / @daspetey : As the world struggles to understand AI and how it will affect creativity, tons of really fun conversations are starting to happen. Here's a great interview with the creator of Midjourney: https://www.theverge.com/... James Vincent / @jjvincent : had a fantastic time talking to @midjourney founder @DavidSHolz about the world of AI image-generation! also fun: all illustrations were generated with AI using the text as prompts. below: “An Xbox with a giant AI processor and all the games are dreams” https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... James Vincent / @jjvincent : AI image generation is a fast-moving field ofc and there's lots of important stuff we didn't touch on. But I think David's viewpoint is a helpful illustration of a certain hopeful, humanistic stance that focuses on the imaginative potential of these tools https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...