It’s always sunny at the Generative AI Conference.

Tracy Jackson, who runs a blog called Marketing Amateur, stood before us. I asked him the same question about whether AI chatbots will take our jobs. “Never say no,” he said. “He still needs guidance, but never say never.” Before using AI chatbots, a blog post used to take two days. He said it would take two hours now. (That is, if the Wi-Fi is working well, the fun songs we’ve all been waiting for are suddenly no longer an option due to a crappy internet connection.)

A group of CEOs led by venture capitalist Sameer Dholakia, I returned to the podium area in time to reflect on how this new era of AI is changing business. Imad Mostak, CEO of Stability AI, said his company’s text-to-image model went from taking 5.6 seconds last August to generating 40 AI images per second. “These models are actually very unoptimized,” Mostak said. We’re just getting started. After the panel, Anya Singh, who worked on search products at Google for nearly 16 years, excitedly showed me the website of a company she had invested in, NeuroPixel.ai. Generates realistic, synthetic images of human clothing models for $1 a pop. Another company Singh is involved in is REImagine Home, which ingests photos of your fuddy-duddy home space and spits out AI-generated decorations.

“I’ve been trying to use the internet to decorate my house since September and I feel so overwhelmed,” Singh told me. She was creating vision boards and designing classes. The estimated cost was thousands of dollars per room, and still the designs “didn’t have the gestalt of the whole house or my budget or what it needed.” REImagine Home won’t solve all of these problems, but it will eliminate some conflicts, Singh said. “I like to think that this is making bad efficient systems better.”

It’s enough to make any graphic artist or fit model or interior designer cringe. or is it Kevin Rose, a New York Times As a columnist said at a GenAI event, Follo, fear of aging, has overwhelmed visions of an AI-filled future. Highly social or experiential or craft activities still require a human touch. People are fine. Of course, Roose said this, two days before Microsoft’s new AI chatbot told Roose he wanted to be alive, professed to be in love with him, and released a list of hypothetical destructive nightmares.

Jordan Harrod, an AI instructor and doctoral candidate at MIT, told the GenAI audience, “At the end of the day, when it comes to how we fit into the equation, the answer is just human interaction. The human condition is very important. To illustrate this point, Harrod uses an AI-generated graphic of two people holding hands with the word “human connection” on the left. The macabre figure showed four wrists, two hands and at least 12 fingers between them. It was deteriorating. It was reassuring, if only for a moment.