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Wed. 01/06 – New GPT-3 Models Can Generate Images From Text

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🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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There are two new GPT-3 models and now the robots have come for the graphic artists. Trump continues his tech cold war against China, but the question is, will Biden? WhatsApp is further absorbed into the Facebook mothership. Eve Online players broke the game by playing it so hard. And Cameo wants you to know there’s money in the banana stand—I mean... paying Tom Arnold to record a video for you. Sponsors: Audible.com/techmeme or text techmeme to 500-500 for a free 30-day trial Links: This avocado armchair could be the future of AI (MIT Technology Review) DALL·E: Creating Images from Text (OpenAI Blog) Trump bars U.S. transactions with eight Chinese apps including Alipay (Reuters) WhatsApp updates its Terms and Privacy Policy to mandate data-sharing with Facebook (XDA-Developers) CIRP: iPhone 12 sales strong at launch, but iPhone 12 mini ‘likely disappointed Apple’ (9to5Mac) Players in Eve Online broke a world record — and then the game itself (Polygon) Cameo launches hiring spree following banner year (Axios) Link to the Clubhouse parody video (@PottsJustin) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, January 6, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, there are two new GPT three models and now the robots seem to have come for the

0:15.7

graphic artists. Trump continues his tech cold war against China but the

0:20.2

question is will Biden? What's-app is further absorbed into the Facebook Mothership.

0:26.0

Eve online players broke the game by playing it so hard,

0:29.1

and Cameo wants you to know,

0:30.7

there's money in the banana stand I mean paying Tom Artle to record

0:34.5

videos for you here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

0:39.6

Open AI has introduced two new GPT 3 models. The first is called

0:46.0

Clip, which can classify images into categories from arbitrary text. The second

0:52.2

is more interesting, it's Dahl E, which can generate images entirely

0:58.1

from snippets of text, quoting the MIT Technology Review.

1:04.2

For all, GPT3's flare, its output can feel untethered from reality as if it doesn't know

1:09.5

what it's talking about.

1:11.4

That's because it doesn't. By grounding text and images

1:14.2

researchers at open AI and elsewhere are trying to give language models a better

1:17.6

grasp of the everyday concepts that humans use to make sense of things.

1:21.4

Dahl E and Klip come at this problem from different directions.

1:26.0

At first glance, Klip,

1:28.0

contrastive language image pre-training,

1:30.0

is yet another image recognition system.

1:32.0

Except that it is learned to recognize images not from labeled examples in curated

1:36.4

data sets as most existing models do, but from images and their captions taken from the

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