AI in the Wild

AI Art & The Power of Data (feat. Paul Blankley)

Episode Summary

On this episode, I speak with Paul Blankley, Founder & CTO of Ex Quanta: AI Studio. Ex Quanta is a tactical SWAT Team of data scientists and engineers creating AI-focused SaaS businesses & building customized AI tools for clients, to help supercharge sales and increase retention. Prior to starting the company, Paul held R&D positions at Roche and completed his masters in Data Science at Harvard. Paul has channeled his love of AI, Art, & Data, to create his own AI Art. Something he's been working on developing for over 9 months. Paul has successfully generated Cubist Art, purely generated from AI models.

Episode Notes

*We discuss, *

• How AI generated Art is created (it's harder than you think)
• How to train an AI model to produce results you seek
• How does technology affect the future of art, especially if the art can be generated rather easily?
• How startups can compete in an Ai world
• Practical applications of enterprise & consumer data
• How that data is leveraged for the benefits of businesses and consumers.
• Threats that arise due to a data explosion

*Educational References: *

Blogs & Books:

• Distill Pub
• Open Ai’s blog
• Fair Ai blog
• Google’s Ai blog
• Deep Learning book by Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville

Big thank you to Sunny Parikh for making the connection to Paul and making the podcast possible.