Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

Very rad

Automatic "photoshopping" to order based on plain text commands. For example, give it a photo and tell it "mohawk", and it puts a mohawk on the person in the photo. Just to be clear, this is very different from eg an instagram "mohawk" filter would be, because afaik it isn't pre-programmed to do this stuff. Like, I think you could give it a novel prompt like "fish hat on head" or something and it would try to make that image for you.

https://github.com/orpatashnik/StyleCLIP
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.17249

Pretty cool

update from a friend in Indianapolis:

"There’s a pilot program in Indy to test driverless cars. The manager said the goal is for people to use them to and from IUPUI, and take them to the hospital, and so forth. They appear to have test drivers who do not control the steering. How do I know? Today, one somehow ended up straddling two lanes and managed to rear end me and the car to my right."

Parkour is the perfect sandbox for the Atlas team to experiment with new behaviors. Through jumps, balance beams, and vaults, we push Atlas to its limits to discover the next generation of mobility, perception, and athletic intelligence. https://t.co/xZRNVnhrkc pic.twitter.com/E0ssh45ZCi

— Boston Dynamics (@BostonDynamics) August 17, 2021

Pretty amazing.

Boston Dynamics Atlas parkour failures. pic.twitter.com/BaY4Sx9R74

— MachinePix (@MachinePix) August 17, 2021

can't wait to be murdered by these amazing robots

This is all very impressive, but I wouldn't count it as artificial intelligence since it all based on a carefully scripted program as opposed to the robots figuring out how to navigate and jump around all on their own.

oh, my bad! i always thought the boston dynamics robots were AI-trained at some level, but i guess not?

the mechanical component alone is definitely terror inducing

https://buttondown.email/urbababble/archive/theyre-nearly-there-except-for-all-the-hard-stuff/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/18/motorist-fined-number-plate-t-shirt

lol. great way to prank yer mates car.

PSA for anyone who might be dealing with robot gun dogs, from a farm robot specialist who wasn't really looking at robot wrangling from the public safety standpoint but here we are. https://t.co/PhQSmEnzOn

— Dr Sarah Taber (@SarahTaber_bww) October 17, 2021

https://delphi.allenai.org/

oops and https://www.aiweirdness.com/stealing-a-giraffe-from-the-zoo-only-if-its-a-really-cool-giraffe/

Bit obsessed with the art generator at https://app.wombo.art
https://i.imgur.com/64nlkVF.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/GNfnlBl.jpg

Had a go at recreating/inventing some old masters:

https://i.imgur.com/vjtnxUc.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/BLLQeot.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/FKXUyw2.jpg

Oh, that's great stuff.

I would totally get this edition of Moby-Dick
https://i.imgur.com/95mCQMc.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/a/kz90wF0.jpeg

https://i.ibb.co/ggjRP07/Screenshot-20211207-112450-org-mozilla-fenix.jpg

fyi you can get an ilx postable link when you upload from the dots in the top right -> get share links -> bbcode (forums)

https://prod-wombo-paint.s3.amazonaws.com/exports/48519cb2-b130-4cdf-8243-a8bc05c53346/blank_tradingcard.jpg

xpost instructions are for imgur, i should have said.

"Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness" + dark fantasy = Endless array of great death metal covers. They tend to look like old Incantation albums.

hokusai's follow up to 'the great wave' - 'miserable pissy rain' (this was with the ukiyo-e filter)

https://i.imgur.com/9NQ5LOu.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/I6AI5PP.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ZcInSAE.jpg

Ha, I was whiling away some time inputting ilx thread titles on this the other day!

https://i.imgur.com/mJuYJhj.jpg

https://app.wombo.art/card/64efda3d-bb02-450a-94c7-8747b768637d

That "pencil drawing of Paul Weller" one is majestic.

https://prod-wombo-paint.s3.amazonaws.com/exports/64efda3d-bb02-450a-94c7-8747b768637d/blank_tradingcard.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAWGXQXQ6WCOB7PP5J&Signature=CkASKAO%2BtW6SVvKk%2F%2F0AbnRfa9U%3D&Expires=1638896728

^SPIT IN MY MOUTH --Cardi B, zoomers

'On a White Couch'
https://i.imgur.com/aRHnv0d.jpg

Here are some classic Jim'll Paint It suggestions rendered in Wombo pic.twitter.com/ClwYp7UJc8

— Jim (@Jimllpaintit) December 7, 2021

http://app.wombo.art/card/f7cd3bc4-c52b-4d39-b1ab-895831c76d84

I'd say this Wombo thingie merits its own thread, similarly to Transformer, where we can all display our best/worst results. Then, years from today, we'll be able to take a sentimental journey to rediscover our deathless creations.

https://app.wombo.art/card/b50ab818-1549-41e6-8c98-c1289e0bad07

I was hoping that would post as a picture, but apparently I don't know how to do that.

That cthulhu thing is amazing.

Then, years from today, we'll be able to take a sentimental journey to rediscover our deathless creations dead links.

https://www.instructables.com/The-AI-Label-Maker/

(in short, a pi-powered box that examines and object and prints out a label for it. a plate of biscuits gets labelled 'cell phone', a polka dot mug gets 'the window is open'...)

Image generation leveled up again, already.

GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models
abs: https://t.co/G74t97S1jH

Samples from a 3.5B parameter text-conditional diffusion model using classifier free guidance are favored by human evaluators to those from DALL-E pic.twitter.com/gjSYl4cnAd

— AK (@ak92501) December 21, 2021

That looks hard-to-believe good

jesus christ

still has some way to go i'd say

A quick thread on in the importance of being careful what data you share - even if you're the Queen. Today, Her Maj tweeted this lovely picture, gor bless er, etc. You might think that the contents of the red box would be official business. And you'd be right. 1/6 pic.twitter.com/y1RspNRUzy

— Adam Kay (@amateuradam) February 6, 2022