Benj Edwards AI/ML @ai_benj
AI and Machine Learning Reporter, Ars Technica. Exploring the cutting edge and AI's impact on history and culture. Alt for @benjedwards benjedwards.com Raleigh, NC Joined July 2022-
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'The Mona Lisa, but as a real person who is wearing sunglasses and on holiday in Spain during the 1990's. She is holding up a postcard with a picture of a rodent on it, which reads "Wish you were here".'
Flux makes it feel like fall of 2022 again. You can do some really interesting stuff with it
Flux is the new Stable Diffusion 🔥 huggingface.co/black-forest-l…
Sweet mother of roto 😳
The text encoder for the FLUX models appears to account for capitalization, which CLIP-based image generation models (i.e. most of them) do not do. lowercase text message vs. uppercase
Trying to teach my new model to run using reinforcement learning (Hyfydy + depRL)
1980’s VHS Found Footage
Back on my bullsh*t. 😌
Object in a crowd. Prompt: [YOUR OBJECT] in the middle of a blurred crowd, NYC, bustling city street, in a style of a movie still, by Wes Anderson, fog --ar 21:9 --style raw --q 2 --seed 4170935616 You can remove the seed if you want to gen variations. For cars, I added…
Imaginary #Lego Sets Pt2 Prompt: lego bricks style [whatever you want] from harry potter, 8k, cinematic glamour shot --v 5 #harrypotter Worldbuilder. Try it! #aiart #aiartcommunity #aiartwork #aiartists #Midjourney #promptlaboratory #promptshare
WE HAD IT ALL. taking "it's just one click" to the next level and clicking a few more times 👀 first time I really documented my workflow and how I created my AI-collaborative artwork using #midjourneyv5 and #photoshop 🔥 happy to hear your thoughts! youtu.be/El2793aks2g
A new post about prompt injection attacks, which I'm increasingly concerned about now that people are hooking LLMs up to external tools through Auto-GPT, ChatGPT Plugins etc simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/14/wo…
thank you @benjedwards 🙏🏼✨ @arstechnica #aicinema would not be the same without @JohnMeta8 and @mrjonfinger in it too ☺️👊🏼 #synthography
thank you @benjedwards 🙏🏼✨ @arstechnica #aicinema would not be the same without @JohnMeta8 and @mrjonfinger in it too ☺️👊🏼 #synthography
Instruct-NeRF2NeRF: Editing 3D Scenes with Instructions abs: arxiv.org/abs/2303.12789 project page: instruct-nerf2nerf.github.io
Needed: a mental health bot to help me cope with this mind-bending onslaught. 😅
If you're just starting to learn software engineering right now but you're considering dropping it because you think the field might be made obsolete by AI, I have an alternative approach to suggest for you: Start learning now, and use AI tools to learn FASTER
tired of doomscrolling all day? try foomscrolling instead! spend your entire day reading about new AI advancements, research, and model releases rather than actually getting any work done!
An LLM running on a $150 (or less) computer. Think about having something like all of GPT running on your phone giving you answers even if you aren't connected to the Internet. This is insane.
An LLM running on a $150 (or less) computer. Think about having something like all of GPT running on your phone giving you answers even if you aren't connected to the Internet. This is insane.
"Except I didn't write that, an AI did" is getting cheugy at this point

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