// Stable Diffusion, Explained //
You've seen the Stable Diffusion AI art all over Twitter.
But how does Stable Diffusion _work_?
A thread explaining diffusion models, latent space representations, and context injection:
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Today: the 7th largest law firm on Earth announced a 3,500-lawyer deal with Harvey, an OpenAI-backed AI Lawyer startup:
See below for:
- Deal details
- Harvey's capabilities (❗)
- Harvey's open roles (I refer talent to them!)
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Best of AI Twitter (Nov 28 - Dec 6):
- ChatGPT,
- Design proteins with a text prompt (!)
- @roon & @noahpinion on the future of work with AI,
- NeurIPS 2022,
- Stable Diffusion sped-up 20x,
- @characterAI is building AGI,
- The "Forward-Forward Algorithm",
... and more:
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Best of AI Twitter - January 11-25 (megathread):
Andrej Karpathy builds "GPT from Scratch",
A class-action lawsuit against Stability AI,
Track human pose using WiFi alone,
An LLM-native IDE,
InstructPix2Pix & AdA,
Training a world-class Rocket-league RL bot,
... and more:
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Best of AI Twitter (Jan 2 - 11):
- Microsoft investing $10B to own 49% of OpenAI,
- MedPaLM matches human doctors in medical accuracy,
- The "LLM uncanny valley",
- SOTA Muse and VALL-E models,
- Stability AI's "DeepFloyd": a mysterious new research lab...
... and more:
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// Harvey: Legal AGI //
Harvey is an OpenAI-backed GPT-4 startup building AI knowledge workers.
They've signed deals with the largest law firms on earth, and are the fastest-growing LLM startup by revenue I know of.
Everything you need to know about Harvey:
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Best of AI Twitter (Oct 30-Nov 6):
- Terrifying OpenAI Codex demo 😅,
- Meta AI teaches LLMs to fold proteins and solve math olympiad problems,
- George Hotz leaves Comma for "tinycorp",
- Broken Neural Scaling Laws,
- E-book search + fashion-gen code demos,
... and more:
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Best of AI Twitter (Sept. 18-25):
- OpenAI releases Whisper (human-level speech-to-text)
- Adversarial, interactive deepfakes
- Twitter "gossip" on how OpenAI gathers GPT-4's trillions of training tokens
- The guts of Google's multibillion-parameter ad model
... and more:
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Best of AI Twitter (Sept. 4-11):
- Neural head avatars via engineering alone,
- Alex Karpathy continues his YouTube influencer journey,
- Speech and music generation that *works*! via LM,
- Roon drops sacred wisdom on the future of software (hint: LLMs)
... and more:
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Last two weeks in AI (Nov 13-27):
- MinD-Vis: reading mental imagery from brain recordings,
- Meta AI's CICERO plays human-level Diplomacy,
- Stable Diffusion 2.0,
- Galactica: science-generation text model,
- Action-driven LLMs,
- The future of data moats,
... and more:
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// Diplomacy AI thread-of-threads //
Yesterday, Meta AI revealed CICERO, an AI system that beat 90% of human players at Diplomacy.
Unlike Chess, Go, etc., Diplomacy requires multiplayer collaboration - and backstabbing!
A CICERO thread-of-threads from Meta AI researchers:
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Best of AI Twitter (Oct 16-30) - megathread!
- DeepMind trains RL transformers to "learn how to learn",
- Holodeck & text-to-music demos,
- Stability AI gets the $101M bag 💰,
- Neural audio compression + Hokkien translation,
- "Bleeding edge" research feed,
... and more:
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// Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), Explained //
You've seen NeRFs all over Twitter - they generate 3D views from a few 2D photos.
But what exactly are NeRFs? How do they work?
We'll explain:
- What NeRFs do
- How NeRFs make images
- Architecture + training
... and more:
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