Text-to-Image Goes Viral: Inside Craiyon, Formerly Known as DALL·E Mini
Generative Modeling

Text-to-Image Goes Viral: Inside Craiyon, Formerly Known as DALL·E Mini

A homebrew re-creation of OpenAI’s DALL·E model is the latest internet sensation. Craiyon has been generating around 50,000 user-prompted images daily, thanks to its ability to produce visual mashups like Darth Vader ice fishing and photorealistic Pokemon characters.

July 13, 20221 min read
Text-to-Image Goes Viral: Inside Craiyon, Formerly Known as DALL·E Mini
Generative Modeling

Text-to-Image Goes Viral: Inside Craiyon, Formerly Known as DALL·E Mini

A homebrew re-creation of OpenAI’s DALL·E model is the latest internet sensation. Craiyon has been generating around 50,000 user-prompted images daily, thanks to its ability to produce visual mashups like Darth Vader ice fishing and photorealistic Pokemon characters.

July 13, 20221 min read
Speaking Your Language: Startup Papercup Offers AI-Powered Voice Translation
Generative Modeling

Speaking Your Language: Startup Papercup Offers AI-Powered Voice Translation

A startup that automatically translates video voice overs into different languages is ready for its big break. London-based Papercup offers a voice translation service that combines algorithmic translation and voice synthesis with human-in-the-loop quality control.

June 29, 20222 min read
Speaking Your Language: Startup Papercup Offers AI-Powered Voice Translation
Generative Modeling

Speaking Your Language: Startup Papercup Offers AI-Powered Voice Translation

A startup that automatically translates video voice overs into different languages is ready for its big break. London-based Papercup offers a voice translation service that combines algorithmic translation and voice synthesis with human-in-the-loop quality control.

June 29, 20222 min read
DALL·E 2’s Emergent Vocabulary: The text-to- image generator DALL·E 2 invents its own words and concepts
Generative Modeling

DALL·E 2’s Emergent Vocabulary: The text-to- image generator DALL·E 2 invents its own words and concepts

OpenAI’s text-to-image generator DALL·E 2 produces pictures with uncanny creativity on demand. Has it invented its own language as well? Ask DALL·E 2 to generate an image that includes text, and often its output will include seemingly random characters.

June 8, 20223 min read
Tech Imitates Life, Life Imitates Art: Image Generation Technique Works Pixel By Pixel
Generative Modeling

Tech Imitates Life, Life Imitates Art: Image Generation Technique Works Pixel By Pixel

The computational systems known as cellular automata reproduce patterns of pixels by iteratively applying simple rules based loosely on the behavior of biological cells. New work extends their utility from reproducing images to generating new ones.

June 8, 20223 min read
Tech Imitates Life, Life Imitates Art: Image Generation Technique Works Pixel By Pixel
Generative Modeling

Tech Imitates Life, Life Imitates Art: Image Generation Technique Works Pixel By Pixel

The computational systems known as cellular automata reproduce patterns of pixels by iteratively applying simple rules based loosely on the behavior of biological cells. New work extends their utility from reproducing images to generating new ones.

June 8, 20223 min read
DALL·E 2’s Emergent Vocabulary: The text-to- image generator DALL·E 2 invents its own words and concepts
Generative Modeling

DALL·E 2’s Emergent Vocabulary: The text-to- image generator DALL·E 2 invents its own words and concepts

OpenAI’s text-to-image generator DALL·E 2 produces pictures with uncanny creativity on demand. Has it invented its own language as well? Ask DALL·E 2 to generate an image that includes text, and often its output will include seemingly random characters.

June 8, 20223 min read
Image Generation + Probabilities: New Method Boosts Performance for Normalizing Flow
Generative Modeling

Image Generation + Probabilities: New Method Boosts Performance for Normalizing Flow

If you want to both synthesize data and find the probability of any given example — say, generate images of manufacturing defects to train a defect detector and identify the highest-probability defects — you may use the architecture known as a normalizing flow.

May 11, 20223 min read
Image Generation + Probabilities: New Method Boosts Performance for Normalizing Flow
Generative Modeling

Image Generation + Probabilities: New Method Boosts Performance for Normalizing Flow

If you want to both synthesize data and find the probability of any given example — say, generate images of manufacturing defects to train a defect detector and identify the highest-probability defects — you may use the architecture known as a normalizing flow.

May 11, 20223 min read
More Realistic Pictures From Text: How the Glide Diffusion Model Generates Images from Text
Generative Modeling

More Realistic Pictures From Text: How the Glide Diffusion Model Generates Images from Text

OpenAI’s DALL·E got an upgrade that takes in text descriptions and produces images in styles from hand-drawn to photorealistic. The new version is a rewrite from the ground up. It uses the earlier CLIP zero-shot image classifier to represent text descriptions.

April 20, 20222 min read
More Realistic Pictures From Text: How the Glide Diffusion Model Generates Images from Text
Generative Modeling

More Realistic Pictures From Text: How the Glide Diffusion Model Generates Images from Text

OpenAI’s DALL·E got an upgrade that takes in text descriptions and produces images in styles from hand-drawn to photorealistic. The new version is a rewrite from the ground up. It uses the earlier CLIP zero-shot image classifier to represent text descriptions.

April 20, 20222 min read
Neural Nets + Rules = Truer Text: Jurassic-X can answer questions, check facts, solve math, and more
Generative Modeling

Neural Nets + Rules = Truer Text: Jurassic-X can answer questions, check facts, solve math, and more

A new approach aims to cure text generators of their tendency to produce nonsense. AI21 Labs launched Jurassic-X, a natural language processing system that combines neural networks and rule-based programs.

April 20, 20222 min read
Neural Nets + Rules = Truer Text: Jurassic-X can answer questions, check facts, solve math, and more
Generative Modeling

Neural Nets + Rules = Truer Text: Jurassic-X can answer questions, check facts, solve math, and more

A new approach aims to cure text generators of their tendency to produce nonsense. AI21 Labs launched Jurassic-X, a natural language processing system that combines neural networks and rule-based programs.

April 20, 20222 min read
From Sequences to Symbols: Transformers Extend AI's Mathematical Capabilities
Generative Modeling

From Sequences to Symbols: Transformers Extend AI's Mathematical Capabilities

Given a sequence of numbers, neural networks have proven adept at discovering a mathematical expression that generates it. New work uses transformers to extend that success to a further class of expressions.

April 13, 20222 min read

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