Future Now 07 - The nearby Mae West Point, PI Day Humor, Steve Follmer on the new weight loss/end obesity drugs, Greg Panos on the latest creative AI tools, Richard Cray Sings for an AI experiment

Listen Now to Future Now Show 07 3.14.2022

While we were recording this week’s show, the wind and rain were howling outside, thousands locally were without power and bandwidth, and we were concerned about large trees falling on our house.  Fortunately, we were able to complete the show without incident, and what a show it is! 

We take a closer look at the mysterious Mae West point, explore the strangeness of Boulder Creek, Steve Follmer, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, shares his experiences with a class of weight loss drugs known as semaglutides, which are taking the world by storm. 

And on the creative front, Greg Panos describes several new AI-powered tools that give us visual and audio super powers, i.e. creating amazing images in a few seconds from a simple textual description, like “create a monkey in a space suit meditating on the shri yantra.” Though is cause to fear AI, there is even more cause to celebrate how AI can enhance our creative expression. Enjoy!

AI generated image from the text: “a monkey in a space suit meditating on the shri yantra”