Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, May 24th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Google research has detailed Imogen or Imagine it's spelled I am A G E N

so I'm assuming Google wants the pronunciation to be fluid which is an AI-based text image generator that is a rival to open AI's Dahl E2.

Google says, however, that it won't release the code or give a public demo at this time quoting tech crunch.

Imagine get it is a text to image diffusion based generator built on large

transformer language models that okay let's slow down and unpack that real quick.

Text to image models take text inputs like a dog on a bike and produce a corresponding image,

something that has been done for years, but recently has seen huge jumps in quality and accessibility.

Part of that is using diffusion techniques which basically start with a pure noise image and

slowly refine it bit by bit until the model thinks it can make it look any more like a dog on a

bike than it already does.

This was an improvement over top to bottom generators that could get it hilariously wrong at first

guess and others that could be easily let astray. The other part

is improved language understanding through large language models using the

transformer approach, the technical aspects of which I won't and can't get

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