🔴 PERFUSION: a generative AI model from NVIDIA that fits on a floppy disk 💾
It takes up just 100KB. Yes, you heard it right, much less than any picture you take with your mobile phone! Why is this revolutionary and can change everything?
I'll tell you 🧵👇
Perfusion is a really lightweight "text-to-image" model (100KB) that also trains in just 4 minutes.
It allows creatively portraying objects and characters, maintaining their identity, using a novel mechanism they have called "Key-Locking."
Perfusion can also combine individually learned concepts into a single generated image.
Moreover, it allows controlling the balance between visual alignment and the text prompt at the time of inference, covering the entire Pareto front with just a single trained model.
And why is this revolutionary?
For several reasons.
1️⃣ Such great optimization means that we will soon have truly powerful AI models integrated into our mobile phones, computers, etc. Much lighter, faster to train, and consuming less computing power.
2️⃣ The costs of training models will be drastically reduced in the future with optimizations like this and new techniques that allow everything to be streamlined.
3️⃣ If, in just 100KB, a new technique (key-locking) has achieved such a large increase in the coherence of objects/characters between generations, as in this example, it means that we have only SCRATCHED THE SURFACE of what the future Generative AI will be able to do.
In short, a massive piece of news that I don't understand why it's going so unnoticed. Don't be fooled by "the low quality" of the images. The potential it has is truly MASSIVE.
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Generate any image controlling structural integrity ✨ Infinite use cases! Films, 3D, video games, art, interiors, architecture... From cartoon to real, the opposite, or ANYTHING in between!
The VFX team of Here (directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Robin Wright & Tom Hanks) used Magnific for their FX 🤯
To break it all down (+more), I interviewed VFX supervisor Kevin Baillie! 🧵👇
An incredibly exciting conversation where @kbvfx shares how he got started in the world of VFX, his career journey, what it’s been like working with directors like George Lucas and Robert Zemeckis, and the impact of generative AI in Hollywood plus much more!
So happy to finally be able to share the details!
I've been biting my nails for months but we weren’t allowed to make it public until NOW. Huge thanks to Kevin, finally!
As a co-founder of Magnific, seeing our creation used in a film directed by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, etc.) is a dream come true.
We've always known that Magnific is a tool used by professionals (Dior, MrBeast, Adobe, Beeple, etc.), but seeing something this incredible with our own eyes makes it all feel so much more real.
You have no idea how happy this has made me. I don’t think I’ve felt this proud since that one time, by some miracle, I beat Emilio at Age of Empires.
Anyway, I won’t ramble on. Here are the questions Kevin was kind enough to answer, you won’t want to miss them!
Today, I’m going to talk about something we might be able to achieve, though maybe humanity should never even try:
A method for an AI to gain consciousness and reach the status of a superintelligence (ASI).
A theory I’ve been working on for months 🧵
Index – In case you want to jump straight to a section:
0️⃣ Introduction
1️⃣ The foundation of current AI models
2️⃣ What is consciousness?
3️⃣ How to create a self-aware AI?
4️⃣ Singularity / ASI
5️⃣ Moral implications
6️⃣ Risks
0️⃣ Introduction
I’ve been thinking about this idea for a long time, slowly working through its foundations.
Let me start by saying I am NOT a researcher a this is NOT a paper. While I’ve been close to the theory behind foundational AI models, my knowledge has its limits.
The idea I’m about to share is ridiculously simple and it could be VERY wrong.
But what if, against all odds, it really IS as simple as what I’m proposing?
Criticize the idea, not the person: I’d love to hear your thoughts and debate. Thanks!