Can't see this headline without thinking of my favorite cartoon of all time https://www.reddit.com/r/me_irl/comments/sqap29/me_irl/

Ah, seeing that (apparently like-minded amiga386) came here to post the same thing: https://onegianthand.com/post/188730414621/silica-gel

This is excellent! Beautifully simple interface. Took me a minute to realize I could start typing without seeing a blinking cursor.

In case you think NeRFs don't have any useful applications

Totally—Imagen seems better at composition and relative positioning and text, while DALL-E seems better at lighting, backgrounds, and general artistry.

Yeah Dall-e looks amazing, to a mysterious degree even with hints of humour and irony, while imagen images look cheap, one dimensional and quite ugly to be honest.

Still amazing that we're at a point where that's the case, they're both incredible developments.

Would be fascinated to see the DALL-E output for the same prompts as the ones used in this paper. If you've got DALL-E access and can try a few, please put links as replies!

Posting a few comparisons here.

https://twitter.com/joeyliaw/status/1528856081476116480?s=21...

Imagen seems more realistic where Dall-E2 is more feel-good.

That is what I feel personally.

I agree with you, but for me, Dall·E 2 feels good because 90% of the time I can keep hitting the generate button and massage the prompt until I get something inspirational, surprisingly, or visually pleasing. Without access to Imagen, it's impossible for me to compare how much of the "realistic feels" of its images is constrained by the taste of the cherry-pickers.

Looking at these… I can’t help but wonder if these are literal examples of AI imagination?

I've started to ask myself if my own creativity is a result of random sampling from the diffusion tapestry of associated memories and experience on that topic.

What else could creativity possible be?

I do wonder what Dall-E 2 would output for a request along the lines of "A still life of a vase of flowers in a completely new art style."

Don't have access to Dall-E 2 or Imagen but I do have [1] and [2] locally and they produced [3] with that prompt.

[1] https://github.com/nerdyrodent/VQGAN-CLIP.git [2] https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion.git [3] https://imgur.com/a/dCPt35K

Nice. Latent-diffusion has come out very traditional but the VQGAN/CLIP ones are fairly original.

From my experiments, the LD one doesn't seem to have been trained on as big or as tagged data set - there's a whole bunch of "in the style of X" that the VQGAN knows* about but the LD doesn't. That might have something to do with it.

See the paper here : https://gweb-research-imagen.appspot.com/paper.pdf Section E : "Comparison to GLIDE and DALL-E 2"

Imagen seems better at capturing details/nuance from the prompt, but subjectively the DALLE-2 images feel more “real” to me. Not sure why. Something about the lighting?

That feels about right. Imagen has a better text processing model, so it can tease apart the prompt, but DALLE has a rocking image part.

So... has anyone actually started a company to do this? I'd be a very interested customer. (Comment written from a basement office lit unsatisfactorily by cheap photography studio lights)

Much of the original cast plus special guests will do a live scriptreading of The Princess Bride this Sunday night to benefit the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.

Original Cast

  Cary Elwes as Westley 

Robin Wright as Buttercup Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya Wallace Shawn as Vizzini Christoper Guest as Count Rugen Billy Crystal as Miracle Max Carol Kane as Valerie Chris Sarandon as Prince Humperdinck

Introducing

Rob Reiner as The Grandfather Josh Gad as Fezzik Eric Idle as The Impressive Clergyman King Bach as Yellin, The Assistant Brute and The King Finn Wolfhard as The Grandson Shaun Ross as The Man with Albinism fka The Albino Whoopi Goldberg as The Ancient Booer and The Mother Jason Reitman as The Narrator

BTW: unroll.me's parent company Slice has the exact same business model.