Autogenerated Images

Creating images with Machine Learning

All that talk about auto-generated music yesterday reminded me of The Big Sleep, an awesome Colab notebook illustrating the use of OpenAI’s CLIP to auto-generate images from a textual prompt.

I went back to the Colab and was happy to see it was still mostly working, I had to simply adjust the version of pytorch to 1.10.1 to get it back to a working state. I played around with it a bit since yesterday, and eventually got this interesting image for prompt “Bob Marley Jamming cartoon”.

I did go a bit overboard, and eventually was throttled out of Colab resources for a day.

This example is a really fun toy, but not as rewarding as coding music, since you have a lot less control over the process, and iteration time is just too slow. Anyway, it’s a tangible example of the power of machine learning worth looking into a bit more. This blog post expands on the AI generated art scene and the tech powering it.