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Every single time I see an article about a new AI model that has a section called "societal impact" I know immediately they are not releasing the model, the training set, nothing... It seems to be the kind of bullshit statement that those companies put in place of "we paid $500k training this model and we're not giving it for free to anyone".
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The writing issue demonstrably has been solved without any breakthroughs by simply making a larger model (dall-E 2 vs the publicly available dall-e), the same appears to be for other main issues as well - it's just that the publicly available versions are based on smaller/weaker models than the state of art because they're significantly cheaper to run. Also, I seem to recall that at least some models deliberately har…
Neither DALLE version 1 or 2 was completely released. Further, DALLE2 definitely still has issues with generation of text, although latent diffusion can do an okay job of it.
Is there an AI that creates realistic text from photos?
Microsoft has an app called Seeing Eye that’s not as good at it.
Both of those use older pre-CLIP technology.
I feel like Imagen gets all the noise and people forget about Parti - https://parti.research.google/ It's another google project using a different set of techniques.
Parti+Imagen is in development and is competitive again.
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AFAIK nothing is released yet? They are probably still trying to, like Dall-E 1/2, remove every every image and ban every word that might generate even the slightest hint of controversial imagery before releasing it to the public. To be fair, Stable Diffusion spent months basically doing the same on Discord with thousands of beta users, and had an army of moderators flagging images which were subsequently removed in…
Even if you don’t want to block generating porn, you still want to know if you’re getting it, because nobody wants to get porn when they didn’t ask for it. (and it may be illegal depending on your country) It’s easy to remove the filter from the SD scripts and that’s intentional.
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I kind of get the sentiment about openness but I think it's way more nuanced than you are making out. There are very good reasons for withholding SOTA models, primarily from the info hazard angle and avoiding escalating the capabilities race which is basically the biggest risk we have right now. Google / Deepmind have actually made some good decisions to try and slow down the race (such as waiting to publish).
Capabilities race, seriously? This is not nuclear warfare my guy. It's mathematics.
These tools are amazing for prototyping. I had an idea for a promotional poster, and seeing my idea just by writing it felt like magic. The generated image had too many artifacts to use, but gave me a guideline to follow when creating the real thing in Pixlr. AI content generation (text, image, source code, video, music) will be a huge boon for prototyping where applied judiciously.
Google hasn't released squat . Google's product is vaporware and we shouldn't afford them any airtime until they release something usable. They're just trying to butt in and get press off of the backs of the teams actually working in the open, and that's super lame. Release your model, Google, or stop bragging and talking over the others here. You're greedily sucking oxygen out of the conversation, and as a trillion…
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Google hasn't released squat . Google's product is vaporware and we shouldn't afford them any airtime until they release something usable. They're just trying to butt in and get press off of the backs of the teams actually working in the open, and that's super lame. Release your model, Google, or stop bragging and talking over the others here. You're greedily sucking oxygen out of the conversation, and as a trillion…
I kind of get the sentiment about openness but I think it's way more nuanced than you are making out. There are very good reasons for withholding SOTA models, primarily from the info hazard angle and avoiding escalating the capabilities race which is basically the biggest risk we have right now. Google / Deepmind have actually made some good decisions to try and slow down the race (such as waiting to publish).
What good does a few months lag do when nobody is bracing for impact?
i only have a passing curiosity in these projects personally. can someone in the field explain why this has exploded recently? there seems to be a lot of these tools released recently (text to image) was there a major breakthrough? a new idea that pushed everyone forward? a recent sharing of talent between groups? edit: just another thought, are they just being posted to HN now, i don't see a date on the page for whe…
Every single time I see an article about a new AI model that has a section called "societal impact" I know immediately they are not releasing the model, the training set, nothing... It seems to be the kind of bullshit statement that those companies put in place of "we paid $500k training this model and we're not giving it for free to anyone".
Maybe I’m being too optimistic but either way, given the pace of progress we won’t have to wait very long to play with this magic.
[1] https://openai.com/blog/reducing-bias-and-improving-safety-i...