Comment by CamperBob2
6 days ago
I still remember my jaw hitting the floor when the first DALL-E paper came out, with the baby daikon radish walking a dog. How the actual fuck...? Now we're probably all too jaded to fully appreciate the next advance of that magnitude, whatever that turns out to be.
E.g., the pelicans all look pretty cruddy including this one, but the fact that they are being delivered in .SVG is a bigger deal than the quality of the artwork itself, IMHO. This isn't a diffusion model, it's an autoregressive transformer imitating one. The wonder isn't that it's done badly, it's that it's happening at all.
This makes me think of a reduction gear as a metaphor. At a high enough ratio, the torque is enormous but being put toward barely perceptible movement. There is the huge amount of computation happening to result in SVG that resembles a pelican on a bicycle.