Best of AI — August 2022

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   KDnuggets·4y

   Free AI for Beginners Course

   A 12 week, 24 lesson curriculum designed to introduce learners to the world of AI. You can see specific course content, laid out lesson by lesson, here. If you are interested in knowing more, you might want to get to know the instructors for the course.

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   80 LEVEL·4y

   The Workflow Behind Changing AI-Generated Outfits in Motion

   The Workflow Behind Changing AI-Generated Outfits in Motion was created by Karen X. Cheng. She used DALL-E to generate clothes by erasing parts of her existing outfit and inpainting over it.

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   Pointer·4y

   Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, MacOS and Windows built with Linux-First philosophy.

   Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, MacOS and Windows built with Linux-First philosophy. Upscayl uses AI models to enhance your images by guessing what the details could be. It uses Real-ESRGAN (and more in the future) model to achieve this.

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   Changelog·4y

   microsoft/AI-For-Beginners: 12 Weeks, 24 Lessons, AI for All!

   Microsoft Learn is a 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum all about Artificial Intelligence. You will learn: Different approaches to Artificial Intelligence, including the "good old" symbolic approach with Knowledge Representation and reasoning. There are also Labs available for some topics, which give you an opportunity to try applying the material you have learned to a specific problem. Each lesson contains some pre-reading material.

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   Hacker News·4y

   Stable Diffusion is a really big deal

   Stable Diffusion is a new ‘text-to-image diffusion model’ that was released to the public by Stability.ai six days ago. You can download and run the model on your own computer (if you have a powerful enough graphics card) You can use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes, I’m personally more concerned with the morality.

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   NVIDIA Developer·4y

   Exploring Unique Applications of Automatic Speech Recognition Technology

   Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is becoming part of everyday life, from interacting with digital assistants to dictating text messages. ASR research continues to progress, thanks to recent advances in - ASR model multiple architectures to match needs - Customization flexibility in industry-specific jargon, languages, accents, and dialects. The startup Ex-human is developing a B2B digital human service.

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   KDnuggets·4y

   The Complete Data Science Study Roadmap

   The Complete Data Science Study Roadmap will map out the things you need to do to become a Data Scientist. This article will help you fill in those gaps so that you don’t have to feel imposter syndrome or lack of confidence on your data science journey.

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   The Next Web·4y

   This AI film is a glimpse into a future of text-to-movie generators

   A computer artist called Glenn Marshall recently won the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival for his AI The Crow. Marshall fed the video frames of Painted to CLIP, a neural network created by OpenAI.

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   Hacker News·4y

   Stable Diffusion Public Release — Stability.Ai

   The model is being released under a Creative ML OpenRAIL-M license. This is a permissive license that allows for commercial and non-commercial usage. It must also be made available to end users of the model in any service on it.

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    Hacker News·4y

    I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2 for $45: here’s what I learned

    AI generated images from DALL-E make better blog thumbnails, do it cheaper, and generally just be more fun? I spent the weekend and $45 in OpenAi credits generating new thumbnails that better represent the content of all 100+ posts from It’s worth some time browsing r/dalle2 to get some ideas for what goes into a good prompt.

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    The Register·4y

    FauxPilot: Like GitHub Copilot without Microsoft telemetry

    GitHub Copilot is a tool for generating programming code suggestions with the help of AI models. It relies on OpenAI Codex, a natural language-to-code system based on GPT-3 that was trained on "billions of lines of public code" in GitHub repositories. Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days.

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    Hacker News·4y

    Open-source rival for OpenAI’s DALL-E runs on your graphics card

    Stable Diffusion is already expected to run on a single graphics card with 5.1 gigabytes of VRAM – bringing AI technology to the edge that until now has only been available through cloud services. The code and a trained model will be published as open source. There will be a hosted version with a web interface August 7, 2022 Stable diffusion. The model is also supposed to running on MacBooks with Apple's M1 chip.

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