Gil Perry CEO of D-ID on Lifelike Digital People, Generative AI, and the Rise of Synthetic Media - Voicebot Podcast Ep 296

My guest is D-ID co-founder and CEO Gil Perry. We talk about how
the company logically evolved into tools for creating talking
digital people and how its capabilities in GANs and protecting
consumers from facial recognition technology were the ingredients
for a unique AI-based video solution. The company is well known
for powering MyHeritage's Deep Nostalgia product, which has
animated over 100 million photographs for consumers. D-ID was
also instrumental in helping Jean-Baptiste Martinoli win two film
festival awards for his AI-generated short film in 2022.


 


Last fall, the company introduced Creative Reality Studio. That
solution enables anyone to upload someone's picture, add some
text, and quickly create a scripted video with an avatar in the
likeness of the photo. In December, D-ID added the ability to
create the script using a prompt to GPT-3 and upload images
created by Stable Diffusion.


 



This is a great example of how synthetic media is often
enhanced by layering several generative AI solutions together.
The new use cases are also why these markets are the hottest in
tech today. Perry, a former software developer that worked on
the viral hit mobile apps Meerkat and HouseParty, offers an
insider's view of the rapid rise and current trajectory of
generative AI and synthetic media.