Event Summary
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard have been used by hundreds of millions of people to generate text products such as emails, stories, poems, blog posts, marketing plans, and much more. (And these tools can do more than create—they can synthesize and analyze text, too.) Just as markable, though, are the generative AI tools for creating images—even photo-realistic images—and video. The use of these tools—MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, Adobe Firefly, and many others—for creating art, graphics, illustrations, ‘photos,’ and even videos are exploding, and the quality is increasing rapidly as the tools are improving and trained on more data. However, it is also important to understand how to use these tools most effectively for your personal, creative, or business purposes. So, join us for a meetup at which we will share and show examples of images/videos and the prompts/inputs used to create them on a big screen while networking and sharing tips, lessons, and contact information to help us all become power users and creators with these fascinatingly powerful generative AI tools!
Moderator
Jay Boisseau, Executive Director, Austin Forum on Technology & Society and CEO, Vizias
Jay Boisseau is an experienced, recognized leader and strategist in advanced computing technologies, with over 25 years in the field. Jay is the executive director and founder of The Austin Forum on Technology & Society, which he created in 2006 and is the leading monthly technology outreach and engagement event in Austin--and now attracts national and international attendees online. The Austin Forum is one of the pillars of the Austin tech scene, providing connections to information, ideas, collaborations, and community overall. In addition, Jay is CEO, co-founder (June 2014), and a partner in Vizias, a small team of passionate professionals with expertise in high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), technology community building, and technology outreach & event planning. Vizias staff lead, execute, and support the Austin Forum through Vizias Research, Education, and Outreach, a non-profit dedicated to using technology for positive social impact. Jay has held previous leadership positions at Dell Technologies, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin, the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center. He received his doctorate in astronomy from UT Austin, and his undergraduate degree in astronomy and physics from the University of Virginia. For Jay's full professional bio, visit here.