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post-punk scientist / previous @DCHackAndTell organizer / creator of many, many irrelevant things / fan of sedenions
Mar 8, 2021 9 tweets 8 min read
CLIP + StyleGAN + #mylittlepony A thread 🧵starting with @ElvisPresley

"A pony that looks like Elvis Presley"
#AI #art #NLP #ML CLIP + StyleGAN + #mylittlepony + @Beyonce
Mar 6, 2021 4 tweets 4 min read
CLIP + StyleGAN FFHQ (noise vecs) is amazing! Same seed for each image (9):

"it was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it that you may come across four or five times in life"

vs

"Grey eyes that grow sadder than sunset or rain"
#AI #art #poetry I think the problem vs other methods (CC CLIP gang @advadnoun @erocdrahs @JanelleCShane) is an unstructured image+network is too complicated to optimize -- starting with a limited latent space (humans? cats? churches?) limits the space for CLIP to shine. Credit to @l4z for idea
Jan 13, 2021 10 tweets 6 min read
This is big ... semantic search is here. Let me show you with poetry. Yes poetry! I coupled @OpenAI's new CLIP model with 25K landscape photos from @unsplash. With it, you get a glimpse into how the AI *visualizes* poetry. A thread 🧵: "Where Alph, the sacred river, ran through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea." (Kubla Khan) ImageImage