How programmers turned the internet into a paintbrush. DALL-E 2, Midjourney, Imagen, explained.
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Beginning in January 2021, advances in AI research have produced a plethora of deep-learning models capable of generating original images from simple text prompts, effectively extending the human imagination. Researchers at OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and others have developed text-to-image tools that they have not yet released to the public, and similar models have proliferated online in the open-source arena and at smaller companies like Midjourney.
These tools represent a massive cultural shift because they remove the requirement for technical labor from the process of image-making. Instead, they select for creative ideation, skillful use of language, and curatorial taste. The ultimate consequences are difficult to predict, but — like the invention of the camera, and the digital camera thereafter — these algorithms herald a new, democratized form of expression that will commence another explosion in the volume of imagery produced by humans. But, like other automated systems trained on historical data and internet images, they also come with risks that have not been resolved.
The video above is a primer on how we got here, how this technology works, and some of the implications. And for an extended discussion about what this means for human artists, designers, and illustrators, check out this bonus video: https://youtu.be/sFBfrZ-N3G4
Midjourney: www.midjourney.com
List of free AI Art tools: https://pharmapsychotic.com/tools.html
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02793
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Thanks for watching! The video above is a primer on how we got here, how this technology works, and some of the implications. And for an extended discussion about what this means for human artists, designers, and illustrators, check out this bonus video: https://youtu.be/sFBfrZ-N3G4
Put this program into a chip and put it into an AI robot and you have just given them creativity
Hmmm, strange how positive the outlook on AI art was when there were only closed source options from Microsoft and Google…
now in the future we are gonna have an ai make a sentence to make an image.
It will become another useless app on your device that will initially gain traction and soon will become blase just like Funny Camera Filters or that silly Gangnam Style song and dance.
Oh so uninspiring.
I feel bad for human creators that don't want their work used by the algorithm. There's no way to prove that it was their creation(s) that was used to make the image. The problem is compounded when you add in that every image generated is a true "1 of 1.
Still the technology is truly fascinating.
Great journey 👍
The thing I find slightly disappointing is that none of the AI apps I have used allow the user to give feedback to help train the AI. For example "a chicken eating a deer" produces mostly just pictures of a chicken/deer hybrid rather than one consuming the other, but there's no way to tell the AI that an output was good or bad, so it can refine the model.
Let us still not forget the fact that the generated images are derived from hundreds or thousands of creative artworks by us, humans. It is like the arts of different artist all come together to form an unimaginable piece we do not expect. It is still incomparable to an art piece that has the soul and passion of an artist.
Wonder us one of the best apps for this. I must say tho, it is great use for a tool, one of the best tools for an artists. But only that, it’s not art and never will be art.
My mind = 🤯
I think this was bound to happen. I tried using one of these programs and it's actually cool. I think that having ways of giving credit to artists that are used for these programs would be a good step. I can see AI art being a great source of inspiration and ideas to use and plan out different types of art. For a novice like me, it can actually be a good learning tool over how to produce different types of art. This won't be an easy transition, but I think it's a necessary one that we need to hammer out the legal and ethical details now rather than waiting for them to haphazardly come together.
I just purchased wonder Ai for my iPhone and it seems like this shouldn’t be possible but it’s doing it. It’s kinda scary when you start seeing it happen.
So thats where Viv got her character from…🤔
best part of this video starts at 13:02
i need one where you can paste a image and it will recreate it
wracking my brain to figure out how they made the polaroids
ball is life
Is this similar to Nawmal?
Well researched and created video. Nice one
If we can control the AI that far, I will ask to live in a simulation where I'm born as a person in the top 0.1% of most priviliged people to have ever lived, again.
3 times did not start, but then it worked
pov you’re watching post Dall-E public release
so thanks to these people, a bunch of artists are gonna lose their jobs, awesome, amazing
I love the possibilities and as an artist I’m not scared in the slightest
How many Captchas have we all failed or accomplished, people?
can we use ai art for commercial purposes?
Wow, glad with the advancement of AI compared to the olden days not too old AISB in 80's. As long as technology is used as part of us, it should be ok – but once technology especially AI got their independence day – there the problem will start escalating either for better or worse. Let us always beware. Still curious with live intelligent arrangement in music playing.
In the future, humans will develop a computer chip as small as an atom that can process all of the mathematics of the universe! It's the 'who', that can manipulate the mathematics too their liking, that should be a real concern. You better believe it will be used against you!
give anyone who is responsible with this explanation a raise, you successfully explaining nth dimension that is easy to digest!
um.. wait
Makes my hopes and dreams of being an artist feels pretty hopeless and pointless ho be honest
What a terrible time we live in.