Tag: Phillip Isola
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Understanding the visual knowledge of language models
Youโve likely heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but can a large language model (LLM) get the picture if itโs never seen images before? As it turns out, language models that are trained purely on text have a solid understanding of the visual world. They can write image-rendering code to generate complex…
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Synthetic imagery sets new bar in AI training efficiency
Data is the new soil, and in this fertile new ground, MIT researchers are planting more than just pixels. By using synthetic images to train machine learning models, a team of scientists recently surpassed results obtained from traditional โreal-imageโ training methods.ย At the core of the approach is a system called StableRep, which doesn’t just…
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Explained: Generative AI
A quick scan of the headlines makes it seem like generative artificial intelligence is everywhere these days. In fact, some of those headlines may actually have been written by generative AI, like OpenAIโs ChatGPT, a chatbot that has demonstrated an uncanny ability to produce text that seems to have been written by a human. But…