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I hate that you need a Google account to use it. I generally don’t mind creating yet another account on the internet since one can easily create such accounts with temp. email addresses, for example; but with Google is trickier (sometimes they even ask a mobile phone number and all when signing up), and I prefer not to have a dummy google account which I use alongside my real google account for fear of being locked o…
The prompt "A shot of a 32-year-old female, up and coming conservationist in a jungle; athletic with short, curly hair and a warm smile" produced an impressive image. But I ran the same prompt 3 times on my laptop in just a few minutes, and got 3 almost-equally impressive images. (using stable diffusion and a free model called devlishphotorealism_sdxl15) https://imgur.com/a/4otrN17
The prompt "A shot of a 32-year-old female, up and coming conservationist in a jungle; athletic with short, curly hair and a warm smile" produced an impressive image. But I ran the same prompt 3 times on my laptop in just a few minutes, and got 3 almost-equally impressive images. (using stable diffusion and a free model called devlishphotorealism_sdxl15) https://imgur.com/a/4otrN17
How are two completely different models from different groups, converging on what looks like the exact same person? Number 1 and 3 are eerily similar. I don't understand.
"Generative AI" is a learned, lossy compression codec. You should not be surprised that the range of outputs for a given input seems limited.
I asked imagen 2 to generate a transparent product icon image, and it generated an actual grey and white square pattern as the background of the image... https://imgur.com/a/KA2yWHp
Google desperately needs to get their platform/docs in order. It is incredibly difficult to use any of their new AI stuff. I have access to Imagen (which was a rodeo to get on its own), but do not know if it v1 or v2 for example.
They need to ditch Sundar, I don't know what the hell they are thinking. Google so badly needs reorganization.
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."
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From what I understand, Google has a unusually large number of engineers who are happy to coast, and would actively avoid taking on anything important. That seems more of an issue to me compared to middle management bloat.
I've seen this claim thrown around a few times but haven't really seen any evidence that it's true, beyond a few unconvincing anecdotes.
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From what I understand, Google has a unusually large number of engineers who are happy to coast, and would actively avoid taking on anything important. That seems more of an issue to me compared to middle management bloat.
I've seen this claim thrown around a few times but haven't really seen any evidence that it's true, beyond a few unconvincing anecdotes.
Would you have agreed this was the case at Twitter for a while?
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According to Fiona Cicconi, Google’s chief people officer, Google employed 30,000 managers before the recent layoffs. The hard truth is Google needs a Twitter style culling. Take all those billions you're burning and give it to people with a builder mentality, not career sheeple. Unfortunately the same executives who would oversee this are the ones who need to be culled first.
From what I understand, Google has a unusually large number of engineers who are happy to coast, and would actively avoid taking on anything important. That seems more of an issue to me compared to middle management bloat.
I hate that you need a Google account to use it. I generally don’t mind creating yet another account on the internet since one can easily create such accounts with temp. email addresses, for example; but with Google is trickier (sometimes they even ask a mobile phone number and all when signing up), and I prefer not to have a dummy google account which I use alongside my real google account for fear of being locked o…
FWIW I think I have 5+ google accounts. Have had them since gmail was in beta and have never been banned