Stable Diffusion
5 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2022 by Benedict Evans · said 26 times in 9 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Dec 5, 2022 neutral
Evans: Generative AI creates novel combinations but lacks taste for quality
“With Stable Diffusion or GPT-III, It can only know which ones are good by reference to the existing corpus, and it can make something new, but it doesn't, a new original, a new and original and striking, but it wouldn't know that it was good without the human …”
Feb 12, 2023 bullish
Evans: Generative AI processing demands will reignite the PC hardware upgrade cycle
“Will I be able to tell the difference running Keynote and a web browser and email and Excel? No, I will not be able to tell. Would I be able to tell running Stable Dive Fusion? Oh, suddenly I get that image back in 10 seconds instead of 20 seconds. Oh no, that…”
Apr 2, 2023
Apr 2, 2023 neutral
Evans: Running image generation models locally on phones is months or years away
“You know, we're going, quickly going to go to a model in which you can run stable diffusion on the journey yourself on your computer or on your phone. That's like months or years away. It's not decades away. That's close.”