- Published on July 21, 2022
- In AI Features
How did text-to-image tools become so commercialised
Interestingly, Google, like OpenAI, recently said that the company wouldn’t release its image generation tool Imagen to the public due to risks of misuse.
- By Poulomi Chatterjee
Seven years ago, in 2015, AI innovation was marked by an important development - automated image captioning. ML algorithms could be used to label objects in image datasets which could further be turned into natural language descriptions using automated image captioning. This feature is usually directed toward persons with vision problems.
This research inspired a certain curiosity in the research community. A group of scientists from the University of Toronto went a step ahead and decided to flip the process to answer the question: what if these natural language descriptions could be used to generate images instead?
The task was far more complex than producing text from image datasets. The model was trained on a large-scale dataset called Microsoft COCO and could also generalis
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Poulomi Chatterjee
Poulomi is a Technology Journalist with Analytics India Magazine. Her fascination with tech and eagerness to dive into new areas led her to the dynamic world of AI and data analytics.
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