Revolutionizing Creativity feat. Cristobal Valenzuela | ASK MORE OF AI with Clara Shih

Clara sits down with John Somorjai, Chief Corporate Development and Investments Officer at Salesforce Ventures, as he shares why his team invested in Runway, a startup that created a multimodal system able to generate novel videos with text, images or video clips as inputs. Then, Runway's Co-founder and CEO Cristobal Valenzuela joins Clara as they delve into the future of storytelling with AI. AND finally...the pod gets the Runway treatment. Watch to see what their technology can do.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:15 Salesforce acquisitions of Artificial Intelligence companies
3:28 How Tableau, Mulesoft, and Slack work with generative AI
4:48 The history of Salesforce Ventures
9:50 Salesforce Ventures Generative AI Fund
16:05 How Salesforce brings their values to their investments
18:10 Investment in Runway
19:15 John Somorjai's background
21:00 Introduction to Cristobal Valenzuela of Runway
21:30 The history of Stable Diffusion
23:40 Latent Space explained
24:35 Large language models (LLM) vs diffusion models
25:50 The challenges of using Stable Diffusion with video
30:15 Runway's work on “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
33:20 Examples of Runway prompts
36:20 How did you end up in this space?
37:38 AI in media and Hollywood
40:00 How do you find time to be creative?
40:50 How should we educate our kids about an AI-driven world?
42:37 Three takeaways from Clara Shih
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If AI is so intelligent and can do so much, why are the AI prompts entered by typing in text vs just talking to it? Hasn't voice recognition been around much longer?