GPT-X, DALL-E, and our Multimodal Future (Final Polish)

Last weekend, I applied some polish to all of the videos in GPT-X, DALL-E, and our Multimodal Future.

I’m very excited about the project and I’m proud of how it all turned out.

It’s so crazy, even for me … as the person who made it. It’s an experience to rewatch it myself. There’s this rush I get watching it over - the fact that no one else has seen it in its entirety in the whole world other than me - I can’t explain it.

This project is just so big too. It’s hard for me to remember everything that happens in it because it encompasses so many videos. So, I'm learning from it and watching it too, as if it's the first time (just like you will).

I feel like I have something new and really compelling here … I almost want to enjoy these last few intimate moments with the project before I release it out into the world.

There’s this intimacy and excitement before you release a project. Once it's out into the ether, it takes on a life and public interpretation of its own. I'm, of course, looking forward to reading everyone's comments on the videos, but I'm willing to also acknowledge that the comments will for sure change and influence my own interpretation of my work. The purity and essence of the mindset that conceptualized it will also evolve as GPT-X, DALL-E, and our Multimodal Future enters the public Zeitgeist. At some point, even I will forget what I meant or where it came from, or even why it’s important. I may even confuse its ideas after trying to synthesize them mentally with incoming feedback from the world. But I hope the essence of what I meant in this exact moment of my life will always be something felt by viewers, perhaps, decades later. The beauty of the medium - YouTube - is that the project will take on its own independent role even if its creator is no longer its champion and will always be available to anyone, anywhere in the world, 24 hours a day.

In these remaining days, I'm trying to just enjoy this mindset and the values shared between the project and I. It's a special moment in my life. At many points, there was a real flow state and a lot of what needed to be created happened instinctually and effortlessly. There was a real connection and quality creative partnership achieved here between the project and I. I'm sorry if I sound dramatic about all of this, but it was truly meaningful for me.

If I could thank the project in person, I would. It is a crystallization of many of my ideas along the two dimensions of multimodality and creativity, but in many ways, it has helped me grow and learn more about the essence of who I am both as a creative and as an individual. What's in your soul? I've always believed all of your work has a little piece of you in it, this project is no different for me. I did the best I could and my only goal from the beginning was to give the project the effort and quality that I always felt its unique ideas deserved. I am in service to you and to the project, and I take joy in knowing the underlying hospitality-like relationship going on here. This project is truly a labour of love and I made it sincerely as a gift to you.

Anyways, as you can tell, I really am trying to cherish these last few moments with the project as it wraps up and I am clearly becoming pretty sentimental. Thank you for all of your support and I apologize for all of the delays. I'm giddy and hope you love it. Full release date and schedule for all the videos are coming shortly.