Gavin Miller: Adobe Research | Lex Fridman Podcast #23

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

June 10, 2019

Duration

1h 9m

Channel

Lex Fridman Podcast

Watch on YouTube

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🎤 SPEAKERS

• Lex Fridman

  host

• Gavin Miller

  guest

• Narrator

  other

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Gavin Miller, Gavin Miller: Adobe Research | Lex Fridman Podcast #23 explores adobe Research Chief Explores AI’s Future in Creativity and Robots Gavin Miller, head of Adobe Research, discusses how AI is transforming creative tools to automate tedious tasks while preserving and expanding human creativity. He explains concrete projects in image editing, search, and style transfer, and how Adobe balances power-user control with new, assistive interfaces. Miller also talks about data, privacy, and learning from user workflows, plus his parallel life as a poet and roboticist using biomimetic robots to explore intelligence and personality. The conversation ranges from deep technical ideas like GANs and 3D understanding to philosophical questions about altered reality, authenticity, and the future of human–machine collaboration.

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