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Idk they did release public access to Gemini on day one. At least for one of the versions.
This confirms that they don't really withhold access to other models because of "safety", but simply because those models are not as good as advertised.
Kinda scratching my head at the purpose of the prompt understanding examples they show off. From previous papers I've seen in the space, shouldn't they be trying various compositional things like "A blue cube next to a red sphere" and variations thereof? Instead they use >The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. N…
I've developed two tests for AI image generators to see if they've actually advanced to "the next level". Take literally any AI image generator and give it one of these prompts: "A flying squirrel gliding between trees": It won't be able to do it. Just telling it "flying squirrel" will often generate squirrels with bat wings coming off their backs. Ahh, but that's just a tiny, specific thing missing from the data set…
The flying squirrel one, was spot on, it showed an image of the trees, and a squirrel with wings, which kind of looned like bat wings.
The 3 girls hugging each other however worked fairly well, it always created 3 different types of persons, but they never hugged each other. Either two of these 3 hugged each other, or no one hugged someone.
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It's true, was there through 2016-2023. People just have different definitions of what coasting means. In general don't think "doing nothing" or "avoiding work" think "add certainty to process + decision making like everyone else does", and much more importantly "avoiding friction because as soon as there's even a little bit, people leverage it" More detail on what causes this: - processes become elongated through wh…
For anyone reading, if you care about your work, dysfunctional org situations like that will kill you with stress. Either fix the situation or get away, sooner rather than later. Almost nothing is worth that.
For camaraderie along the way:
- any peer to peer counseling / mentorship at your company. having someone senior in an unrelated division caring about it, and who I also could trust to be honest with me about when it was my fault vs. I was being railroaded helped a ton
- Blind (the app). Standard perils of internet anonymity and verbal brutality, but, at least you'll always get excellent advice. if you did your best, people aren't afraid to say it either.
- be aware of your companies policies on medical leave.
- leave sooner rather than later
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I think the process is 1. Go to console.cloud.google.com 2. Go to model garden 3. Search imagegeneration 4. End up at https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/publishers/google... And for whatever reason that is where the documentation is. Sample request curl -X POST \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \ -d @request.json \ "https://us-c…
Once I finally got mostly set up for that, with billing and everything, it said it's only available for a limited number of customers, with a "request access" link to a google form with further links (to enable https://aiplatform.googleapis.com/ ) which 404. What a shitshow.
Results: https://imgur.com/a/JIiuDt9
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Google seems to be desperately trying to show that they’re still relevant in AI, but they always end up with half-assed demos and presentations of products that don’t exist yet.
Isn't "half assed" a fairly accurate description of basically every google product since gmail and Android (and arguably that's been a rolling dumpster fire) Even calendaring was something that took ages for them to get right. For something like a decade you couldn't move an event from one calendar to another on Android - only via the destop web view. Google went from being an innovative company to a web version of I…
This post has more information: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/i... I can't figure out how to try this thing. The closest I got was this sentence: "To get started with Imagen 2 on Vertex AI, find our documentation or reach out to your Google Cloud account representative to join the Trusted Tester Program."
I think the process is 1. Go to console.cloud.google.com 2. Go to model garden 3. Search imagegeneration 4. End up at https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/publishers/google... And for whatever reason that is where the documentation is. Sample request curl -X POST \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \ -d @request.json \ "https://us-c…
Results (these are the only two images I generated): https://imgur.com/a/JIiuDt9
I think the competition for text to image services is over and open source, stable diffusion won. It doesn't matter how detailed (or whatever counts as "better") corporate text-to-image products get, stable diffusion is good enough which really is good enough. Unlike the corporate offerings, open source txt2img doesn't have random restrictions (no its not just porn at this point) and actually allows for additional sc…
Kinda scratching my head at the purpose of the prompt understanding examples they show off. From previous papers I've seen in the space, shouldn't they be trying various compositional things like "A blue cube next to a red sphere" and variations thereof? Instead they use >The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. N…
I've developed two tests for AI image generators to see if they've actually advanced to "the next level". Take literally any AI image generator and give it one of these prompts: "A flying squirrel gliding between trees": It won't be able to do it. Just telling it "flying squirrel" will often generate squirrels with bat wings coming off their backs. Ahh, but that's just a tiny, specific thing missing from the data set…
Would be a lot easier if AfterDetailer could handle dynamic prompts.
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Isn't "half assed" a fairly accurate description of basically every google product since gmail and Android (and arguably that's been a rolling dumpster fire) Even calendaring was something that took ages for them to get right. For something like a decade you couldn't move an event from one calendar to another on Android - only via the destop web view. Google went from being an innovative company to a web version of I…
How has Android been a dumpster fire? I don't even think it's arguable.
Android's advantage has always been that everyone else gets to play. And it's good that we have that. But they aren't exactly the beacon of innovation they think they are or claim to be in marketing copy.