John Maeda on Computational Evolution - Editorial - Le Random

John Maeda discusses his combined identity as a technologist, artist and designer, arguing that a multidisciplinary approach is essential to innovation and creativity, in an interview with Peter Bauman for Le Random. Maeda says he is genuinely excited about AI, much as he was about the early World Wide Web, and that artists will need to become much faster at delivering their work because latent diffusion models can generate images in seconds. On his own work, he says his art lies in the fact that he made it, and he notes that he recently changed roles at Microsoft from VP of Design to VP of Engineering.