I spend a lot of time thinking about the serious applications and implications of AI. I also enjoy using it for smaller, more personal creative projects: telling stories, writing songs, generating music, and creating videos and images.
These are experiments in using AI to help capture something recognizably human, whether that is the experience of looking for what comes next or simply needing a little time to watch your show.
When my daughter said I couldn’t post a photo I took after a day of downhill mountain biking, I turned it into a fantasy portrait and then animated it.
Turning a family New Year’s goals presentation into an early experiment with AI narration, generated video, and traditional editing.
A lighthearted song inspired by my wife finally getting our grandson to sleep, only to have the rest of the family interrupt the quiet she had been waiting for.
When I learned that our friend’s dog Marley had become protective of a pear, I turned the story into a superhero comic. A family joke about Marley being the best dog in the universe inspired a few more images.
Turning a long-form article about the personal side of an extended executive job search into two very different songs and a full AI-assisted music video.