#22: Adobe Adopts AI Images, DALL-E 2 for Product Design & Sequoia Capital Goes All-In on Generative AI

Paul and Mike return, discussing three more hot topics in the world
of artificial intelligence. Adobe, along with many other
innovators, has been experimenting with Generative AI. It is a
transformational technology, one that will accelerate the ways
artists brainstorm and explore creative avenues — and make
creativity accessible to millions more people. At the same time,
like many new technologies, Generative AI has raised valid
concerns. Among the questions: How is the work of creative people
being used to train AI models? And how will we know whether
something we see was created by a human or a computer? Next, New
York City-based CALA, a startup that bills itself as the “world’s
first operating system for fashion,” offers a digital platform
(including a mobile app launched in March) that allows creators to
design and produce clothing lines, unifying the process from
product ideation through order fulfillment. With the addition of
DALL-E-powered text-to-image generating tools, users can generate
new visual design ideas from natural text descriptions or uploaded
reference images – which the company says are first-of-its-kind
capabilities for the fashion industry. And finally, Sequoia Capital
just signaled that they’re all-in on generative AI. Sequoia is one
of the best-known venture capital firms on the planet, with decades
of experience investing in some of tech’s biggest names like Apple,
Google, Instagram, LinkedIn, and PayPal. Recently, Sequoia
published a post called “Generative AI: A Creative New World,”
where they laid out their position on generative AI tools like
Jasper, DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and others taking the world by
storm. Listen to the conversation.