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Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text

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Re: Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text

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Post by aantix »

stevewatson301 wrote: post #17
colordrops wrote: post #14

Is Google going to share or do something other than better advertising with this? What do they plan to do with it? I'm frankly tired of these show-off blog posts by Google that neither make it into general hands nor are used for anything positive. This is just a link to their previous posted site btw, nothing new.

My guess is they're they'll use Imagen and LaMDA to build a "conversational" search experience of some kind. So, instead of providing a list of websites to go to, they'll synthesize an answer to the search query, with imagery to go along with it, and so on.

Similar to

https://github.com/jokenox/Goopt

Re: Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text

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Post by acoard »

prophesi wrote: post #188
acoard wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only issue I had was WSL 2 was not using my GPU, so obviously it failed. Couldn't get it working on Windows either, failed at installing dependencies. I'm thinking of dual-booting Linux just to try out stable-diffusion. I normally dev on Linux but don't do GPU work, only my Windows gaming PC has the horsepower to run stable-diffusion and unfortunately I couldn't get it working on Windows. Shame cause I'd love to…

Hm, what issues did you come across on Windows? I have it running on both a Windows PC and a Fedora PC. I uninstalled python, then installed the full installation of Anaconda. Then I followed the "Requirements" section of the readme and I was good to go. Edit: Just noticed they removed the instructions from the readme for some reason. The requirements section can be found in this diff: https://github.com/basujindal/s…

Thanks for the input. I can return with error logs later, but essentially when doing the `conda create env -f environment.yaml` line it would error out partway through. It would download dependencies for a few minutes then fail on one. I tried multiple times and got the same error. I just assumed it was an issue of a dependency not properly supporting windows.

Are you saying you coulda `conda create env -f environment.yaml` fine? This was my first conda install on Windows, so perhaps I missed something else.

Re: Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text

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Post by acoard »

mmastrac wrote: post #191
acoard wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only issue I had was WSL 2 was not using my GPU, so obviously it failed. Couldn't get it working on Windows either, failed at installing dependencies. I'm thinking of dual-booting Linux just to try out stable-diffusion. I normally dev on Linux but don't do GPU work, only my Windows gaming PC has the horsepower to run stable-diffusion and unfortunately I couldn't get it working on Windows. Shame cause I'd love to…

Try out a Ubuntu live image. You can probably get set up with everything without even having to touch your HDD! I just don't know how the native NVidia drivers work in that case, but I think you can get them installed and restart the window manager, even w/a a liveCD.

That's a really good idea than finding another HD to install. Thanks.

Re: Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text

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Post by aantix »

janekm wrote: post #138
echelon wrote: post #57

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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…

Well… midjourney used stable diffusion (with an additional guidance model I believe, not just prompt engineering) for their beta model which they already closed down again… it’s back to their old far inferior model.

Why did they close it down?

Re: Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text

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Post by aantix »

carrozo wrote: post #12
anshul wrote: post #2

Does anyone know if or when google intends to make this available for beta testing or public use?

Towards the bottom of the page they say: “The potential risks of misuse raise concerns regarding responsible open-sourcing of code and demos. At this time we have decided not to release code or a public demo. In future work we will explore a framework for responsible externalization that balances the value of external auditing with the risks of unrestricted open-access.”

By the time they figure out the "responsible externalization" portion, competitors (including open source) will surpass their results.

The technology isn't special to Google. They don't control its proliferation.

Re: Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text

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Post by cercatrova »

acoard wrote: post #213
prophesi wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hm, what issues did you come across on Windows? I have it running on both a Windows PC and a Fedora PC. I uninstalled python, then installed the full installation of Anaconda. Then I followed the "Requirements" section of the readme and I was good to go. Edit: Just noticed they removed the instructions from the readme for some reason. The requirements section can be found in this diff: https://github.com/basujindal/s…

Thanks for the input. I can return with error logs later, but essentially when doing the `conda create env -f environment.yaml` line it would error out partway through. It would download dependencies for a few minutes then fail on one. I tried multiple times and got the same error. I just assumed it was an issue of a dependency not properly supporting windows. Are you saying you coulda `conda create env -f environmen…

Yes it works fine for me on Windows with conda.

    conda env create --name envname -f environments.yml
Try reinstalling conda. Do you have a firewall on or anything like that?

Re: Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text

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Post by prophesi »

acoard wrote: post #213
prophesi wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hm, what issues did you come across on Windows? I have it running on both a Windows PC and a Fedora PC. I uninstalled python, then installed the full installation of Anaconda. Then I followed the "Requirements" section of the readme and I was good to go. Edit: Just noticed they removed the instructions from the readme for some reason. The requirements section can be found in this diff: https://github.com/basujindal/s…

Thanks for the input. I can return with error logs later, but essentially when doing the `conda create env -f environment.yaml` line it would error out partway through. It would download dependencies for a few minutes then fail on one. I tried multiple times and got the same error. I just assumed it was an issue of a dependency not properly supporting windows. Are you saying you coulda `conda create env -f environmen…

Yeah, my Windows machine was able to run that command just fine.

Maybe one of the newer commits broke something? I think I cloned it when b91816301fa62df239a45336b381ee918ff52b2a was the latest, but I'll have to check when I get home.

Re: Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text

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Post by IanCal »

CharlieDigital wrote: post #177
lm28469 wrote: post #151

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You still have to decide what you take a pic of, that's the artistic part. You have to chose a subject, lights, &c. it's still incredibly more complex than "hey google draw me a horse with a tuxedo" You can tell that right away seeing how many camera users never produce anything of quality. A 6 years old can press the button of a camera but no 6 years old will produce meaningful work. In the case of Ai art tools you…

> "hey google draw me a horse with a tuxedo" I think this is an oversimplification. There was a recent write up by a guy who used DALL-E to create his logo for his open source project. What was clear from that writeup is that it is still a process for getting exactly the look that one is aiming to achieve. Even with an AI, there are different styles, decisions, choices, and visual representations that have to be made…

> Except that instead of composing a scene with makeup, props, and subjects, you do it textually.

One of the truly fascinating things with stable diffusion is that you can use a starting image. So you can start with a vague sketch to control the composition. It's quite incredible.

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