7 Learnings from Building rickandmortify.com and Tinkering with Generative AI — Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody’s gonna die. Come watch TV? — Morty Morty might sound nihilistic at first, but I think he is making an endearing point about entertainment. There’s something fundamentally soothing about a good story. I also think that simply watching stories doesn’t completely cut…

A step-by-step guide to build and deploy a Flask app — Ever since Stability.ai released Stable Diffusion (their open-sourced text-to-image model) just a few short weeks ago, the ML community has been crazed about the doors that it opens. As an open-sourced alternative to OpenAI’s gated DALL·E 2 with comparable quality, Stable Diffusion offers something to everyone: end-users can generate images…

Nudging text-to-image models to illustrate abstract titles. — Text-to-image models like DALL·E are largely seen as off-the-shelf tools that require no further fine-tuning and can be controlled solely via text prompts. However, existing models were trained to illustrate concrete entities explicitly mentioned in the prompt. …

DALL·E can generate whatever you want, as long as you know the right incantation — The advent of text-conditioned image generation models like DALL·E is undoubtedly going to change the traditional creative process. However, art will not necessarily come for free: the burden will simply shift away from drawing or using complex graphic design software to crafting effective text prompts to control the whims of…

How Google’s Minerva promises a future where machines can act — Large Language Models like GPT-3 have mostly been used for the same task they were trained to perform: text generation. However, language is merely a means to an end. In the coming years, we will see an inflection where models *act*, not just *talk*. Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-3…

Stock Photos from Unsplash vs AI-Generated Images — I used Craiyon (a text-to-image AI that replicates DALL·E 2 at a smaller scale) to generate pictures for my past Medium articles. Here’s how they compare to Unsplash.

In ancient China, the talent for summarizing was ranked just below the talents of astrology and medicine. (GPT-3 claim about the task of summarization) When writing my article about text summarization, an admittedly dull topic, I wanted to spruce it up somehow. So I did what one does when wanting…

And how this poses an opportunity for startups — Out of all Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, summarization is arguably one of the least headline-worthy. Shrinking the content of an article is a lot less dazzling than having GPT-3 automatically generate startup ideas. However, despite its lower-key profile, text summarization is far from being solved, especially in industry. The…

Conversational AIs like DialoGPT are still too dangerous for the real world — WARNING. This post contains references to self-harm and suicide. It includes conversations between a human and DialoGPT, with the sole purpose of surfacing the danger of uncontrolled AI. If you or a loved one are dealing or have dealt with suicidal thoughts, I suggest skipping this article. In the context…