Lex Fridman PodcastGavin Miller: Adobe Research | Lex Fridman Podcast #23
Episode Details
EPISODE INFO
- Released
- June 10, 2019
- Duration
- 1h 9m
- Channel
- Lex Fridman Podcast
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Gavin Miller is the Head of Adobe Research. Adobe have empowered artists, designers, and creative minds from all professions working in the digital medium for over 30 years with software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, InDesign, Audition that work with images, video, and audio. Adobe Research is working to define the future evolution of these products in a way that makes the life of creatives easier, automates the tedious tasks, and gives more & more time to operate in the idea space instead of pixel space. This is where the cutting-edge deep learning methods of the past decade can shine more than perhaps any other application. Gavin is the embodiment of combing tech and creativity. Outside of Adobe Research, he writes poetry & builds robots. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep23-sb See below for timestamps, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. *CONTACT LEX:* *Feedback* - give feedback to Lex: https://lexfridman.com/survey *AMA* - submit questions, videos or call-in: https://lexfridman.com/ama *Hiring* - join our team: https://lexfridman.com/hiring *Other* - other ways to get in touch: https://lexfridman.com/contact *OUTLINE:* 0:00 - Introduction 1:11 - Poetry & crossover to creative work 6:35 - Turning one medium into another 7:45 - Creative process in both the space pixels and ideas 10:00 - Improving workflow in Adobe tools with AI 14:31 - Taking ideas from prototype to product 16:22 - Learning how to use Adobe tools 21:13 - Applications of deep learning 28:46 - Improving user experience from data 34:30 - Augmented reality and virtual reality 39:57 - Resistance to change 43:40 - Poem - Today I Left My Phone at Home 44:17 - Illusion of beauty in digital space 49:17 - Secret to a thriving research lab 55:27 - Future ideas in Adobe Research 58:13 - Robotics and animation in the physical world 1:08:01 - Poem - Cast My Ashes Wide and Far *PODCAST LINKS:*
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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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