Final Year Project: 'AIM'
Experiments
How I experimented with AI engines; GTP3, Latent Diffusion, and Disco Diffusion.
The process starts with words, much like an artist migh use a mind-map to brainstorm ideas.
Using GPT-3 I used an AI-association engine, where a I can input a word or sentence, or a headline and have the AI system come up with 5-10 associated concepts.
Depending on what the input, these can can be straight forward, or have a more poetic and/or political twist.
The layout can be minimalist and only text based, or have a graphical layout in the style of a force directed graph.
On the right, is a basic example, where the input prompt “apple” produces a lot of single-word common sense associations.
These prompts are then used by GTP3 to create a sentence. The sentance can be edited or used directly to generate an image in another AI system called Disco Diffusion or Latent, both are image generators.
I used Collab Pro and Colab Pro+
while for the final website I am creating it will be hosted on Colab GCP Marketplace VMs.
Colab GCP Marketplace allows you to specify the exact runtime resources to use and provide you with a persistent environment you can manage to your liking while still using the Colab UI.




















Using Google Colab
Using AI to generate images
Latent Diffusion: This is relatively straight forward to use and the images are created in a few minutes minutes. However the images are of low resolution and not suitable for detailed work.
latentdiffusion.
Mindseye (UI around VQ-GAN+CLIP or Disco Diffusion 5.0). This is medium difficulty with results in 30 minutes to several hours.
Disco Diffusion 5.2 in Google Colab: Advanced difficulty and results in several hours (depending on resolution and which GPU is use. My preferred choice based on experiments
https://colab.research.google.com/github/alembics/disco-diffusion/blob/main/Disco_Diffusion.ipynb
Setting-Up Google Colab's Disco Diffusion
Using Google Colab's Disco Diffusion a text-to-image `AI engine to create images
Image Generation Google Colab's Disco Diffusion
Generating an image using Google Colab's Disco Diffusion a text-to-image AI engine.
Subtitle
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