Synthetic Images Everywhere: 2022 was the year text-to-image AI went mainstream.
Generative Modeling

Synthetic Images Everywhere: 2022 was the year text-to-image AI went mainstream.

Pictures produced by AI went viral, stirred controversies, and drove investments. A new generation of text-to-image generators inspired a flood of experimentation, transforming text descriptions into mesmerizing artworks and photorealistic fantasies.

December 21, 20222 min read
Synthetic Images Everywhere: 2022 was the year text-to-image AI went mainstream.
Generative Modeling

Synthetic Images Everywhere: 2022 was the year text-to-image AI went mainstream.

Pictures produced by AI went viral, stirred controversies, and drove investments. A new generation of text-to-image generators inspired a flood of experimentation, transforming text descriptions into mesmerizing artworks and photorealistic fantasies.

December 21, 20222 min read
Avatars Gone Wild: What's going on with Lensa, the AI-powered selfie app?
Generative Modeling

Avatars Gone Wild: What's going on with Lensa, the AI-powered selfie app?

A blockbuster app produces sexualized avatar images, even when the original portraits were safe for work.

December 14, 20222 min read
Avatars Gone Wild: What's going on with Lensa, the AI-powered selfie app?
Generative Modeling

Avatars Gone Wild: What's going on with Lensa, the AI-powered selfie app?

A blockbuster app produces sexualized avatar images, even when the original portraits were safe for work.

December 14, 20222 min read
Seeing What Comes Next: Transformers predict future video frames.
Generative Modeling

Seeing What Comes Next: Transformers predict future video frames.

If a robot can predict what it’s likely to see next, it may have a better basis for choosing an appropriate action — but it has to predict quickly. Transformers, for all their utility in computer vision, aren’t well suited to this because of their steep computational and memory requirements...

December 7, 20223 min read
Seeing What Comes Next: Transformers predict future video frames.
Generative Modeling

Seeing What Comes Next: Transformers predict future video frames.

If a robot can predict what it’s likely to see next, it may have a better basis for choosing an appropriate action — but it has to predict quickly. Transformers, for all their utility in computer vision, aren’t well suited to this because of their steep computational and memory requirements...

December 7, 20223 min read
How Alexa Says Goodnight: Amazon Echo uses generative AI to create bedtime stories.
Generative Modeling

How Alexa Says Goodnight: Amazon Echo uses generative AI to create bedtime stories.

Too exhausted (or unimaginative) to tell your child a bedtime story? Amazon’s smart displays can spin bespoke tales on demand. A feature called Create with Alexa generates children’s stories complete with illustrations, music, and sound effects on the Amazon Echo Show device.

December 7, 20221 min read
How Alexa Says Goodnight: Amazon Echo uses generative AI to create bedtime stories.
Generative Modeling

How Alexa Says Goodnight: Amazon Echo uses generative AI to create bedtime stories.

Too exhausted (or unimaginative) to tell your child a bedtime story? Amazon’s smart displays can spin bespoke tales on demand. A feature called Create with Alexa generates children’s stories complete with illustrations, music, and sound effects on the Amazon Echo Show device.

December 7, 20221 min read
More Plausible Text, Familiar Failings: ChatGPT hasn’t overcome the weaknesses of other large language models
Generative Modeling

More Plausible Text, Familiar Failings: ChatGPT hasn’t overcome the weaknesses of other large language models

Members of the AI community tested the limits of the ChatGPT chatbot, unleashing an avalanche of tweets that made for sometimes-great, sometimes-troubling entertainment.

December 7, 20223 min read
More Plausible Text, Familiar Failings: ChatGPT hasn’t overcome the weaknesses of other large language models
Generative Modeling

More Plausible Text, Familiar Failings: ChatGPT hasn’t overcome the weaknesses of other large language models

Members of the AI community tested the limits of the ChatGPT chatbot, unleashing an avalanche of tweets that made for sometimes-great, sometimes-troubling entertainment.

December 7, 20223 min read
Novel Views of 3D Scenes — Pronto: Using NeRF Algorithms to Quickly Generate New 3D Views
Generative Modeling

Novel Views of 3D Scenes — Pronto: Using NeRF Algorithms to Quickly Generate New 3D Views

Given a number of images of the same scene, a neural network can synthesize images from novel vantage points, but it can take hours to train. A new approach cuts training time to a few minutes.

November 30, 20223 min read
Novel Views of 3D Scenes — Pronto: Using NeRF Algorithms to Quickly Generate New 3D Views
Generative Modeling

Novel Views of 3D Scenes — Pronto: Using NeRF Algorithms to Quickly Generate New 3D Views

Given a number of images of the same scene, a neural network can synthesize images from novel vantage points, but it can take hours to train. A new approach cuts training time to a few minutes.

November 30, 20223 min read
Creatives Fight Back: Generative AI from DeviantArt Creates Controversy
Generative Modeling

Creatives Fight Back: Generative AI from DeviantArt Creates Controversy

Artists are rebelling against AI-driven imitation. DeviantArt, an online community where artists display and sell their work and marketplace for digital art, launched DreamUp, a text-to-image generator that aims to help artists thwart attempts to imitate their styles or works.

November 23, 20222 min read
Creatives Fight Back: Generative AI from DeviantArt Creates Controversy
Generative Modeling

Creatives Fight Back: Generative AI from DeviantArt Creates Controversy

Artists are rebelling against AI-driven imitation. DeviantArt, an online community where artists display and sell their work and marketplace for digital art, launched DreamUp, a text-to-image generator that aims to help artists thwart attempts to imitate their styles or works.

November 23, 20222 min read
What the Missing Frames Showed: Machine Learning Describes Masked Video Events
Generative Modeling

What the Missing Frames Showed: Machine Learning Describes Masked Video Events

Neural networks can describe in words what’s happening in pictures and videos — but can they make sensible guesses about things that happened before or will happen afterward? Researchers probed this ability.

November 16, 20223 min read

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