
But how do AI images and videos actually work? | Guest video by Welch Labs
About this video
A guest video by Welch Labs on 3Blue1Brown explaining how text-to-image and video models work. It covers CLIP, shared embedding spaces, diffusion models (DDPM, DDIM), conditioning, guidance and negative prompts.
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HN uses it as a clear explainer for diffusion mechanics, such as negative prompts and faster sampling, and for joint text-image encoders.
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From the Hacker News discussion
> Because you somehow need a giant training set which describes images in natural language, no? That's definitely one way - they train a text encoder together with an image encoder on a labelled set of images. WL & 3b1b made a nice video on it: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗My favourite instantiation of this weird invocation is from this AI video generator, where they literally subtract the prompt for 'low quality video' from the input, and it improves the quality. [VIDEO] I've just migrated my AI product to a different underlying model and had to redo a few of the prompts that the new model was interpreting differently. It's not obseleted, just requires a bit of migration. The improved quality of the new models outweighs any issues around prompting.
Read original comment ↗Breakthrough in image generation speed literally came from applying better differential equations for diffusion taken from statistical mechanics physics papers: [VIDEO]
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