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Re: DALL-E 2 generates images of Kermit The Frog in various films

#91

Not to detract from the accomplishment, but none of these are Kermit. The "Kermit" part of the query seems mostly to have accomplished querying for "humanoid frog"

Some of them look a lot like Kermit! But many do not, depending on how far away the target aesthetic is from "muppet." A smarter Dalle2 could do a better job at preserving the "essential Kermit-ness" perhaps. But maybe it's more impressive to adapt to a completely new aesthetic?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the one hand, the ability for Star Trek's Holodeck to create large amounts of content from a few terse natural language instructions is look less and less implausible. On the other hand, I feel like this will ultimately be kinda like traditional procgen algorithms: once you've seen enough of what it produces it all starts feeling very bland and same-y. Sure, the AI may be able to produce a feature-length movie bas…

it would lack the novelty and playfulness of a good human creative work, and it likely would be very shallow in its themes. Simply tune the parameters associated with novelty and playfulness and you’ll get the desired result. There’s nothing inherent in human creativity that can’t be replicated by an AI. Most creative work is derivative and remix’s prior art. This is a good short video on the phenomenon of remixing h…

> There’s nothing inherent in human creativity that can’t be replicated by an AI.

I didn't say otherwise, I'm just skeptical the hypothetical system in question would be sophisticated enough to produce it in faster-than-human time scales.

Re: DALL-E 2 generates images of Kermit The Frog in various films

#93

Dall-E still blows my mind every time. To someone who is plugged into these things, how is this possible? I understand computers and I understand back-propagation but this... it feels like magic to me. Can someone indulge me in a short explanation of how this works and how is it this good?

These are good explanations:

- https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/how-dall-e-2-actually-works/

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1X4fHzF4mQ

Re: DALL-E 2 generates images of Kermit The Frog in various films

#94

These are honestly not very impressive (no sarcasm here) and further convince me that the next AI Winter will come with this coming recession. Don't get me wrong, they are still impressive in the quality of the visual they produce, but just like Markov Chain demos of old, they're neat but way miss the mark. None of these capture the "feel" of Kermit the Frog. Most of them look like weird designs for the Ninja Turtles…

I agree with what you say in re: Kermit. Most of these images look to me like a frog that looks like Kermit the Frog but isn't. Metaphorically (and literally) Jim Henson isn't in these images.

However, I don't think you're correct in your assessment of the import of this sort of thing: it's an imagination machine. This isn't a brick wall, it's a foundation on which to build.

Re: DALL-E 2 generates images of Kermit The Frog in various films

#95

If this is legit it would be one of the most impressive things I've seen in many years.

It's legit, just variations / iterations.

Here's what I got for "A still of Kermit The Frog in Blade Runner 2049 (2017)":

https://imgur.com/a/y7t3RKx

Re: DALL-E 2 generates images of Kermit The Frog in various films

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Does that mean the developers put The Big Lebowski through the model during training? Where did they get all the movies and TV shows from? And does copying so directly from the source material open them and users up to copyright infringement liability?

Wouldn't the images be a transformative work? But then again there were those recent music cases where the infringement was only a small number of notes in sequence. This will almost inevitably end up in court because I'm not sure there is a comparable case.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

? Dale is a legit project from openAI

I think "legit" in this context might mean more of the Twitter post author's representation of their use of DALL-E 2: - Were the prompts shown the ones fed to DALL-E 2 or were there more complex details described in the prompt? - Were these the first images generated for the prompt, or did the author generate many images and cherry-pick the best example, and if so from how many?

The second one is how everyone does it, by the way. AI may as well be a cherry orchard. There’s nothing wrong with it.

The first one, I’d have a huge problem with. Lying about prompts is a no no. Thankfully there’s not much incentive to lie.

Re: DALL-E 2 generates images of Kermit The Frog in various films

#99
More eye candy here: https://np.reddit.com/r/dalle2/top/?sort=top&t=year

Very good one: https://np.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/u5kkty/a_fluffy_baby...

“a masterful impressionist portrait painting of a little doggey who is worried he may not be a good boy”: https://nitter.net/MarkRich388/status/1532482006809866240

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