How Do We Want AI to Influence Human Creativity?

You're kind of at this intersection of art and entrepreneurship.

Um, what's the connection point?

Oh, very interesting.

Uh, yeah, so I think a lot of artists are entrepreneurs by nature, right? You- you're out there trying to get your work in the world, right?

Uh-huh.

So entrepreneurship, I think, and art, uh, are connected a lot of times.

Um, specifically what I was looking to do was take a lot of the ideas I've been working with throughout the years, specifically, like, moving between the digital to the physical realm-

Mm-hmm

... and figure out how that could be expanded to a more, um, useful area.

Uh, and past couple years, a lot of the technology has come together where I think we're at a point that things like agentic AI and, uh, the APIs and connections to the physical realm will allow people to go from their imaginations to physical manifestation.

Yeah.

Um, which is connected to a lot of what I've been interested in.

Um, my background being, like, in robotics and math as well, so I'd always been interested in, like, how technology can connect to the physical world-

Yeah

... which is kind of what robotics is.

Which is super interesting now, right? To think, like, we, we are now...

We've spent the last years really kind of honing in on AI, the conversation around AI, and now one of the biggest things we're hearing is that AI in the physical world is, is gonna become kind of the next frontier, which I definitely wanna get into.

Um, but I'm not done with your background yet.

So I'd love to talk a little bit more about, um, so you were the first artist in residence at OpenAI.

What does an artist at OpenAI, artist in residence at OpenAI actually do?

[laughs]

I mean, and especially at a time where a lot of folks were, like, looking at AI as scary and doing a lot of these whatever.

I- an artist walks into OpenAI, what happens?

Yeah, so that kind of came about because I had been working with them for a couple years.

I got early access to, like-