Dean has been generated by Vana, an AI art program.
Dean has been generated by Vana, an AI art program.
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Conversing with my AI friend ChatGPT | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 7 min

Did you ever wonder what you would look like as a villain in a Grand Theft Auto game? Or how you would look if you were a peacenik with flowers? Or a cyberpunk?

Well, I tried out the Vana AI generative art program and it spit out dozens of painterly images of me that you see here. I live in Silicon Valley, and I have to do this because that’s all that people are talking about on their social media here.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.