Why the UK must not make the EU's AI ‘mistakes’ – Victor Riparbelli, CEO, Synthesia

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🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Victor Riparbelli, co-founder and CEO of Synthesia, discusses the various appeals of AI-generated video content, the importance of startups implementing strict AI safety controls, and how the UK doesn't have to follow what he sees as the EU's mistakes in AI regulation.

Riparbelli founded Synthesia along with Lourdes Agapito, Matthias Neissner and Steffen Tjerrild in 2017. The London-based company uses AI to generate videos hosted by artificial avatars based on user scripts. Its technology is primarily used by more than 55,000 businesses - including half of the Fortune 100 - for corporate education and communications. Riparbelli explains how at the time his company was founded, an AI boom much like the one occurring today was in full force, albeit with lesser technology. The Synthesia CEO credits the success of his company where so many contemporaries petered out to an early focus on turning complex research into marketable products. Synthesia has secured more than $155m since its launch and last year reached a unicorn valuation.

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0:00.0	I think it's kind of easy to say,
0:06.9	we don't like content that's synthetically generated.
0:09.6	And I understand the kind of visual reaction
0:11.3	from some people around that.
0:13.6	But I think it's more complex than that.
0:18.0	When we raised the round 2017,
0:20.5	it was on the back end of like a big AI boom.
0:22.6	There are lots of companies that got a lot more fun than we did and had really, really awesome founding teams,
0:28.6	but that never went anywhere because they got too caught up in the research.
0:32.6	I see a big group of politicians who don't know what they're talking about.
0:39.0	They're obsessed by their own ideologies.
0:41.2	And I think they're about to make some really, really bad decisions for EU in the next, you know, 10, 20, 30, 50 years.
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1:21.4	Hello and welcome to the UKTM podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK
1:26.8	tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related.
1:31.3	I'm your host, Jane Wakefield, and joining me this week is Victor Ripaubelli, the CEO and co-founder of Synthesia,
1:38.3	a firm which creates AI avatars for companies and organisations, primarily for training purposes. Welcome, Victor.
1:45.8	Thank you, Jane. Happy to be here. Now, there's two sort of very exciting things about your
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