Embracing Whimsy: Raccoons, Nature, and AI Innovations

In this Fully-Connected episode, Daniel and Chris explore DALL-E 2, the amazing new model from Open AI that generates incredibly detailed novel images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language. Along the way, they acknowledge that some folks in the larger AI community are suggesting that sophisticated models may be approaching sentience, but together they pour cold water on that notion. But they can’t seem to get away from DALL-E’s images of raccoons in space, and of course, who would want to?

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Featuring:

• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
• How DALL-E 2 Actually Works
• Google - Raccoons in Space!
• On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜

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