Christian Beltrami
Video Director + AI CREATIVITY ░ NUMIX 2022 Finalist ░ Featured in "Most Talented AI Filmmakers from Around the World" ░ Creator of the Radio-Canada fiction podcast Hors Champ ░ Creative Technologist
𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵/𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔 you have in your head. Good and bad…
My expertise, which lies at the intersection of technology and creativity, has taken me across all continents. However, it was in 2019, during a conference at the Mila Institute on "Computational Narrative Intelligence and Story Generation," that my perspective on innovation underwent a profound shift. This experience immersed me in the world of generative AI. I explored the GPT-3 Playground, discovered DALL-E (1), and later Midjourney. In these tools, I saw the emergence of a future where creativity and technology would continuously reshape and inspire each other. What began as a curiosity soon revealed itself to be a disruption for many. We are now living in what could be called our "Downton Abbey" period—where institutions, rooted in outdated traditions, are struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing world. Could this time of uncertainty be our version of the Industrial Revolution? Currently, we are in a phase of research and development, where no clear answers exist regarding AI's long-term impact. Yet, I have chosen to "reboot" myself through my own work and share the results of my ongoing research. Let us come together as architects of our own transformation!