mobby_6kl posted:

Did I miss it or has nobody really posted the new Imagen results? From here: https://imagen.research.google/

A single beam of light enter the room from the ceiling. The beam of light is illuminating an easel. On the easel there is a Rembrandt painting of a raccoon.


A photo of a Corgi dog riding a bike in Times Square. It is wearing sunglasses and a beach hat.



A marble statue of a Koala DJ in front of a marble statue of a turntable. The Koala has wearing large marble headphones.


There is some weirdness in the details if you look closely, and there were probably dozen of images that didn't work out for every one they posted but it's still very cool. Apparently they generate a tiny image first based on the input text, and then upscale it several times to get more details.

rotor posted:

i object to Adam and the Ants being called New Wave

echinopsis posted:

yeah I saw some somewhere else. incredible and surely anyone who doesn’t think it is can surely admit at least how far we’ve come from the hosed up dog faces and get instantly terrified to think where things will be in ten years lol

FAT32 SHAMER posted:

I remember the first time I went to the UP everyone that worked in this one pastie shop had super Finnish names, like Ole or Teemu someone said paaaskkkkaaaaaaaa and it was pretty funny

that’s my Finnish community in North America story thanks for reading

NoneMoreNegative posted:

have done the Numan face more than once

echinopsis posted:

who the gently caress does this guy have the energy to spend the time to make the poo poo he does in this lol
honestly mind boggling that he's capable of doing this poo poo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf6jPlzt0-g

Chris Knight posted:

https://www.svenandoles.com/

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Back in 1981, when Sid Backlund Jr. was 23 and his brother Terry was only 19, the two young men decided to open a small food stand inside a Wisconsin Avenue building for Fisherman's Picnic.
"We sold popcorn, nachos, hot dogs, pop, our mom's brownies, and a few other items," said Sid. "We had no idea how it would work."
The two brothers were encouraged enough to keep the fledgling shop open through August into September, before closing to return to school. Next June 5, 1982, Sven and Ole's opened again. This time it stayed open.
Sid laughs at their lack of experience. "We figured it would take four 12-pound boxes of nacho chips to last the first month. After only four days, we had sold 29 boxes. We were having the chips hauled up by bus and we bought all the Velveeta cheese in the entire country. We were totally unprepared."
The brothers started that summer with their mother's kitchen stove and an old Norge refrigerator. That summer, they doubled the space to 400 square feet. It's the area where you now enter and turn left to order.
The building that housed that early operation and was later used entirely by the growing restaurant was originally built in the 1920's for use by People's Supply. It later became Becky's Store, Gambles and C.O. Backlund and Sons Hardware. People still remember C.O. in his later years sitting his lawn chair with fly swatter in hand, arguing politics with anyone who came in. He was Sid and Terry's grandfather.
In 1985, Sven and Ole's added what is now the dining room. In March of '88, the Pickled Herring Pub came on stream and in 1990, the balance of the building was acquired to increase kitchen and storage space.
Today, Sven & Ole's occupies 3,500 square feet of space and has over 50 employees. Because of their intensive TV advertising over the years, they are arguably the best known restaurant on the North Shore.
Sid Jr. continues to run the entire operation, with regular assistance from his parents, Betty and Sid, and a crew of good managers. Terry went on to pursue other interests in 1998, but he remains a regular in the TV commercials and is the number one consultant and booster to Sven & Ole's.
The Original Sven & Ole's business is now completely computerized, and has come a long way since those first days when you could buy Betty B's brownies for 35 cents a piece.

Kenny Logins posted:

every time i think of new wave i think of the punk/new wave rant from slc punk

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

Adam Ant because drat

matti posted:

machine learning is mega boring imo

echinopsis posted:

yeah I saw some somewhere else. incredible and surely anyone who doesn’t think it is can surely admit at least how far we’ve come from the hosed up dog faces and get instantly terrified to think where things will be in ten years lol

PIZZA.BAT posted:

stock photo industry

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

e: and Adam Ant because drat

Cat Face Joe posted:

EASTERN EUROPE WILL NOT BE OUTDONE

Cat Face Joe posted:

EASTERN EUROPE WILL NOT BE OUTDONE

PIZZA.BAT posted:

PokeJoe posted:

What's the important lesson

graph posted:

seems pretty terrible. ah well, i'm sure it won't be used for pure evil

quote:

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At this time we have decided not to release code or a public demo.
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Second, the data requirements of text-to-image models have led researchers to rely heavily on large, mostly uncurated, web-scraped datasets. While this approach has enabled rapid algorithmic advances in recent years, datasets of this nature often reflect social stereotypes, oppressive viewpoints, and derogatory, or otherwise harmful, associations to marginalized identity groups.
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While we leave an in-depth empirical analysis of social and cultural biases to future work, our small scale internal assessments reveal several limitations that guide our decision not to release our model at this time.
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Preliminary assessment also suggests Imagen encodes several social biases and stereotypes, including an overall bias towards generating images of people with lighter skin tones and a tendency for images portraying different professions to align with Western gender stereotypes.

infernal machines posted:

Achmed Jones posted:

whoa a college roommate is in this screenshot

Achmed Jones posted:

whoa a college roommate is in this screenshot

Chris Knight posted: