The following is a conversation with Gavin Miller. He's the head of Adobe Research. Adobe

has 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, Software 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 creative easier,

automated sitidious tasks, and gives more and 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 really

shine more than perhaps any other application. Gavin is the embodiment of combining tech and creativity.

Outside of Adobe Research, he writes poetry and builds robots, both things that are near and

dear to my heart as well. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence Podcast.

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Freedman spelled F-R-I-D. And now here's my conversation with Gavin Miller.

Your head of Adobe Research, leading a lot of innovative efforts and applications of AI,

creating images, video, audio, language, but you're also yourself an artist, a poet, a writer,

and even a roboticist. So while I promise to everyone listening, that I will not spend the entire

time we have together reading your poetry, which I love, I have to sprinkle it in at least a little

bit. So some of them are pretty deep and profound and some are light and silly. Let's start with a few

lines from the silly variety. You write in a Jean-Vinnegré-Tien, a poem that beautifully parodies both

a dip et piaf, Jean-Vinnegré-Tien, and my web at Frank Sinatra. So it opens with

and now dessert is near. It's time to pay the final total. I've tried to slim all year,

but my diets have been anecdotal. So where does that love for poetry come from for you? And if we

dissect your mind, how does it all fit together in the bigger puzzle of Dr. Gavin Miller?

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