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For anyone who isn't familiar, DALL-E is the state of the art for text-to-image generation. It's closed source, but it's astonishing: https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/

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I have a working repo for that

https://github.com/lucidrains/dalle-pytorch

It just needs to be trained

Hey Phil, not quite on topic but I've used some of your implem (both for hobby projects and for work) and the conciseness and clarity of your code is a delight. Many thanks!

Thanks for the kind words and glad you found them useful :)

I love ur transformer repos, its always joy to re-implement stuff from ur code its easy to read and clean :D

Thanks :D

This is the first time I've seen new tech and felt a twinge of fear instead of thinking "oh cool".

Perhaps you’ve never seen this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA

Compare 2:33 in the above fictional video to this real one:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DjUdVxJH6yI

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35726/the-army-has-unv...

They already had a small drone war. Azerbaijan vs Armenia. Armenia had 1990s soviet stuff. Azerbaijan had recently purchased drone tech. Armenia got totally destroyed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/attack-drones-dominatin...

These are previews of future wars, much like the wars in the decades before WW1 previewed the utter slaughter that was to come thanks to the new technological era of mechanized warfare.

I don't see how this is scarier than the nuclear bombs that already exist.

Less collateral damage. L

Much more accessible to regular people.

Ability to be anonymous and hide in a crowd of drones.

yeah exactly

> It's closed source, but it's astonishing

Really? Their name says OpenAI.

Anyway, how do we know their examples were not cherry-picked? Do they have an online demo?

OpenAI has a reputation and a history for pushing compute forward (AI in Dota2, GPT, CLIP, DALL-E, etc.).

They have everything to lose by lying. If they say that these examples are not cherry-picked, then we have no reason (a priori) to doubt them.

On a side-note, the fact that you could doubt the results are real is telling: each of their compute-heavy experiments shakes our belief and further reinforces their reputation.

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The singularity approaches.

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