Its resolution isn’t great but it’s up to two magnitudes faster than competing systems.
OpenAI, the Elon Musk-founded artificial intelligence startup behind popular DALL-E text-to-image generator, announced on Tuesday the release of its newest picture-making machine POINT-E, which can produce 3D point clouds directly from text prompts. Whereas existing systems like Google’s DreamFusion typically require multiple hours — and GPUs — to generate their images, Point-E only needs one GPU and a minute or two.
…Text-to-Image systems like OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 and Craiyon, DeepAI, Prisma Lab’s Lensa, or HuggingFace’s Stable Diffusion, have rapidly gained popularity, notoriety and infamy in recent years. Text-to-3D is an offshoot of that research. Read More
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No one knew how popular OpenAI’s DALL-E would be in 2022, and no one knows where its rise will leave us
It was clear that OpenAI was on to something. In late 2021, a small team of researchers was playing around with an idea at the company’s San Francisco office. They’d built a new version of OpenAI’s text-to-image model, DALL-E, an AI that converts short written descriptions into pictures: a fox painted by Van Gogh, perhaps, or a corgi made of pizza. Now they just had to figure out what to do with it.
“Almost always, we build something and then we all have to use it for a while,” Sam Altman, OpenAI’s cofounder and CEO, tells MIT Technology Review. “We try to figure out what it’s going to be, what it’s going to be used for.”
Not this time. As they tinkered with the model, everyone involved realized this was something special. “It was very clear that this was it—this was the product,” says Altman. “There was no debate. We never even had a meeting about it.” Read More
The viral AI avatar app Lensa undressed me—without my consent
My avatars were cartoonishly pornified, while my male colleagues got to be astronauts, explorers, and inventors.
When I tried the new viral AI avatar app Lensa, I was hoping to get results similar to some of my colleagues at MIT Technology Review. The digital retouching app was first launched in 2018 but has recently become wildly popular thanks to the addition of Magic Avatars, an AI-powered feature which generates digital portraits of people based on their selfies.
But while Lensa generated realistic yet flattering avatars for them—think astronauts, fierce warriors, and cool cover photos for electronic music albums— I got tons of nudes. Out of 100 avatars I generated, 16 were topless, and in another 14 it had put me in extremely skimpy clothes and overtly sexualized poses. Read More
‘Magic’ AI Avatars Are Already Losing Their Charm
When Lensa, a four-year-old photo-editing app, introduced a new AI-portrait generator in November, the internet was enthralled. But concerns have mounted, particularly among women
Last week, after seeing artsy portraits popping up all over her social media feeds, Christal Luster signed up for a free trial of a photo-editing app called Lensa. She uploaded 10 of her headshots to it and paid $5.99 for 100 new images based on her inputs, which an artificial-intelligence tool produced in under an hour.
Ms. Luster, an actress in Chicago, said the images opened her eyes to the types of characters she could portray. “There was one of them where I was like, ‘Oh I could totally see myself playing in ‘Bridgerton.’ I could learn to speak with a British accent. I could do period pieces,” she said. Others made her look like a superhero, she said: “I could be in the next ‘Black Panther.’” She shared some of the portraits in a video on TikTok, where she has more than 480,000 followers. Read More
This AI Time Machine Transforms You Into A Historical Figure From Any Era
If your social media profile photo needs some zhuzhing up, this AI image generator can turn your selfies and portraits into timeless works of art.
Apps that are designed to produce highly creative imagery through artificial intelligence (AI) are certainly having a moment these days, as another one designed to turn users into prominent people from the past is making the rounds online. Most AI art generators use text-to-image technology that requires user input to determine the artistic direction of rendered photographs. AI art generation is now a mainstay in the zeitgeist, thanks to the likes of DALL-E, an open-source project that inspired many others, which people started using to produce hilarious memes.
Soon after DALL-E’s rise to fame, more platforms that cater to producing hyperrealistic images from descriptive text prompts, including Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, came out of the woodwork and have since attracted sizable user bases. … AI Time Machine is an entertaining new feature that’s currently free to try on MyHeritage, an online genealogy platform. It works by taking a collection of photos depicting a single person and turning them into themed portraits seemingly captured from different points in history. Read More
NVIDIA Omniverse Shines in a New Light with Magic3D
NVIDIA’s new text-to-3D synthesis model Magic3D creates high-quality 3D mesh models better than Google’s DreamFusion
Earlier this month, NVIDIA announced that it would be enabling the beta release of Omniverse, a platform where developers and creators can build Metaverse applications. In this way, the company has aligned its future along the metaverse vision, with the new platform allowing its users to create “digital twins” to simulate the real world.
One such step towards the realisation of such a dream that would help users to render a high-resolution 3D model for any 2D image input, or textual prompt, is Magic3D. Recently released by NVIDIA researchers, Magic3D is a text-to-3D synthesis model that creates high-quality 3D mesh models.
The model is a response to Google’s DreamFusion, in which the team used a pre-trained text-to-image diffusion model, circumventing the impossibility of having large-scale labelled 3D datasets, to optimise Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). Read More
AI Can Now Make Fake Selfies For Your Tinder Profile
Get ready to swipe right on some AI-generated profile pics.
The AI image-generating craze has entered its next phase of absurdity: creating fake profile pics that make you look good on dating apps and social media.
For $19, a service called PhotoAI will use 12-20 of your mediocre, poorly-lit selfies to generate a batch of fake photos specially tailored to the style or platform of your choosing. The results speak to an AI trend that seems to regularly jump the shark: A “LinkedIn” package will generate photos of you wearing a suit or business attire, while the “Tinder” setting promises to make you “the best you’ve ever looked”—which apparently means making you into an algorithmically beefed-up dudebro with sunglasses. Read More
DeviantArt Has a Plan to Keep Its Users’ Art Somewhat Safe From AI Image Generators
The art hosting site is releasing its own AI art system called DreamUp, and users can decide if they want to let their work be picked up by the system.
The year of our lord 2022 could be accurately described as the rise of AI. Instead of Skynet raining fire on our heads, we have AI image generators creating a different kind of apocalypse, especially for artists who promote their work online. So far, few have tried to answer how creators can actually respond to systems that scrape their work from the internet, using art to create new works without offering them any credit.
On Friday, DeviantArt released its new DreamUp AI art generator. Based on the existing Stable Diffusion AI model, this new system will actively tag their images as AI and will even credit which creators it used to create the image when they’re published on the DeviantArt site. Read More
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