The Weird and Wonderful World of AI Art (w/ Author Jack Morris)

#aiart #deeplearning #clip Since the release of CLIP, the world of AI art has seen an unprecedented level of acceleration in what’s possible to do. Whereas image generation had previously been mostly in the domain of scientists, now a community of professional artists, researchers, and amateurs are sending around colab notebooks and sharing their creations via social media. How did this happen? What is going on? And where do we go from here? Jack Morris and I attempt to answer some of these questions, following his blog post “The Weird and Wonderful World of AI Art“ (linked below). OUTLINE: 0:00 - Intro 2:30 - How does one get into AI art? 5:00 - Deep Dream & Style Transfer: the early days of art in deep learning 10:50 - The advent of GANs, ArtBreeder and TikTok 19:50 - Lacking control: Pre-CLIP art 22:40 - CLIP & DALL-E 30:20 - The shift to shared colabs 34:20 - Guided diffusion models 37:20 - Prompt engineering for art models 43:30 - GLIDE 47:00 - Video production & Disco Diffusion 48:40 - Economics, mone