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Tag: BigGAN

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Curse your valentine with these candy hearts

Curse your valentine with these candy hearts

When I’ve generated candy [/this-time-i-didnt-train-a-neural-20-02-14?r=1lic4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy] heart [/more-candy-hearts-by-neural-network-18-02-12?r=1lic4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy] messages [/candy-heart-messages-written-by-a-18-02-09?r=1lic4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_
Searching for Bernie

Searching for Bernie

“Leaning Tower of Pizza”, BigGAN steered by CLIP using Big SleepI wrote earlier about DALL-E [https://www.aiweirdness.com/the-drawings-of-dall-e/], an image generating algorithm recently developed by OpenAI. One part of DALL-E [https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/]’s success is another algorithm called CLIP [https://openai.com/blog/clip/], which
When data is messy

When data is messy

There’s a story I tell in my book [https://youlooklikeathing.com] because it’s a great illustration of how AI gets the wrong idea about what problem we’re asking it to solve: Researchers at the University of Tuebingen trained a neural net to recognize images [https://medium.com/
A weirdly broken AI

A weirdly broken AI

The other day someone told me about a program [https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img] that will generate scenes to match a text description. I’m always excited to test out algorithms like this because the task of “draw anything a human asks for” is so hard that even state-of-the-art results
What is the opposite of guacamole?

What is the opposite of guacamole?

Last week I attempted to illustrate some neural net-generated racehorses by turning to another neural net - this time, one that generates images, called BigGAN [https://aiweirdness.com/post/182322518157/welcome-to-latent-space]. Using Joel Simon’s ganbreeder.app [http://ganbreeder.app] interface, I’m able to see what BigGAN can generate
Welcome to Latent Space

Welcome to Latent Space

I’ve written before about BigGAN [http://aiweirdness.com/post/178619746932/imaginary-worlds-dreamed-by-biggan], an image-generating neural net that Google trained recently. It generates its best images for each of the 1,000 different categories [https://gist.github.com/yrevar/942d3a0ac09ec9e5eb3a] in the standard ImageNet dataset, from goldfish to planetarium to toilet
The creepiest images generated by BigGAN

The creepiest images generated by BigGAN

Writing to you from deep inside the Uncanny Valley, I present to you some hand-selected images generated by an algorithm called BigGAN [https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.11096]. This algorithm looks at example images of a bunch of different objects and then tries its best to figure out how to
Imaginary worlds dreamed by BigGAN

Imaginary worlds dreamed by BigGAN

These are some of the most amazing generated images I’ve ever seen. Introducing BigGAN, a neural network that generates high-resolution, sometimes photorealistic, imitations of photos it’s seen. None of the images below are real - they’re all generated by BigGAN. Preprints of the BigGAN paper are here
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