That's a pretty phenomenal demo video, but as usual, there's very little "open" in OpenAI. I'd love to play with this, and likely will never get to. I don't think I'd be as grumpy about it if...
That's a pretty phenomenal demo video, but as usual, there's very little "open" in OpenAI. I'd love to play with this, and likely will never get to. I don't think I'd be as grumpy about it if their name weren't such a deliberate misnomer. I like a lot of things in the FOSS world whose names start with "open" but this particular group (despite their undeniably impressive results) is way too gatekeepy for my liking.
That's a reasonable complaint. "Open" is a buzz word that's lost all meaning. I've gotten the chance to try out DALL-E 2 and it's not as good in practice as the cherry-picked examples would have...
That's a reasonable complaint. "Open" is a buzz word that's lost all meaning.
I've gotten the chance to try out DALL-E 2 and it's not as good in practice as the cherry-picked examples would have you believe. If you don't prompt it well it will go a little wild. For example - some topics will get it to consistently hallucinate images filled with text. But the text is nonsensical. Maybe it's a good opportunity to empathize with dyslexic people.
Interestingly I discovered you can guide your DALL-E prompts with the help of GPT-3. If you ask GPT-3 for a "stock image search query about [topic]" (just an example - I used a fancier prompt than that) then the resulting AI-generated search query works very well as an input to DALL-E 2. In that 2-step pipeline you effectively have an excellent replacement for stock image sites.
People often say "free or open source" if they want to include the Free Software Foundation's definition of "free software," but I'm not sure there is much of a practical difference? I believe...
People often say "free or open source" if they want to include the Free Software Foundation's definition of "free software," but I'm not sure there is much of a practical difference? I believe commonly-used licenses meet both standards.
There being an official definition for open source and the term not being used for anything else makes it easier to complain when it's misused.
That's a pretty phenomenal demo video, but as usual, there's very little "open" in OpenAI. I'd love to play with this, and likely will never get to. I don't think I'd be as grumpy about it if their name weren't such a deliberate misnomer. I like a lot of things in the FOSS world whose names start with "open" but this particular group (despite their undeniably impressive results) is way too gatekeepy for my liking.
That's a reasonable complaint. "Open" is a buzz word that's lost all meaning.
I've gotten the chance to try out DALL-E 2 and it's not as good in practice as the cherry-picked examples would have you believe. If you don't prompt it well it will go a little wild. For example - some topics will get it to consistently hallucinate images filled with text. But the text is nonsensical. Maybe it's a good opportunity to empathize with dyslexic people.
Interestingly I discovered you can guide your DALL-E prompts with the help of GPT-3. If you ask GPT-3 for a "stock image search query about [topic]" (just an example - I used a fancier prompt than that) then the resulting AI-generated search query works very well as an input to DALL-E 2. In that 2-step pipeline you effectively have an excellent replacement for stock image sites.
"Open source" has meaning, but "open" has been a buzzword since at least the dot-com era.
Be careful though - as "open source" is different from "free open source software"
People often say "free or open source" if they want to include the Free Software Foundation's definition of "free software," but I'm not sure there is much of a practical difference? I believe commonly-used licenses meet both standards.
There being an official definition for open source and the term not being used for anything else makes it easier to complain when it's misused.