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Re:Playing with DALL-E 2 by bricemo on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @11:30PM (#31010918)
I agree. I could not be more blown away if a real UFO landed and aliens introduced themselves. A week ago all of this was impossible.
Re:Playing with DALL-E 2 by nil-sec on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @03:10AM (#31011964)
This isn’t true, the quality of images generated by DALL-E are really good, but they are an incremental improvement and based on a long chain of prior work. See e.g. https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion
Re:Playing with DALL-E 2 by gwern on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @12:43PM (#31016879)
Also Make-A-Scene, which in some ways is noticeably better than DALL-E 2 (faces, editing & control of layout through semantic segmentation conditioning): https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13131#facebook
Re:Playing with DALL-E 2 by garbagetime on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @12:30AM (#31011204)
To people paying close attention, these results are unsurprising. The author is simply accurately assessing the novelty of the results.

edit: fixed typo