Doshi: Image Generative AI Is Stuck in a 'GPT-2 Moment'
Suhail Doshi · The AI-First Graphics Editor - with Suhail Doshi of Playground AI · Jan 2, 2024 · at 18:07
Suhail Doshi, founder of Playground AI, compares the current development state of text-to-image foundation models to early large language models.
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“So I think that we continue to feel like graphics and these foundation models for anything really related to pixels, but also definitely images continues to be very under invested. It feels a little like graphics is in like this GPT two moment, right? Like even GPT three, even when GPT three came out, it was exciting, but it was like, what are you going to use this for? You know, yeah, we'll do some text classification and some semantic analysis and. Maybe it'll sometimes like make a summary of something and it'll hallucinate, but no one really had like a very significant, like business application for GPT-III. And an image is we're kind of stuck in the same place. We're kind of like, okay, I write this thing in a box and I get some cool piece of artwork and the hands are kind of messed up and sometimes the eyes are a little weird. Maybe I'll use it for a blog post, you know, that kind of thing. The utility feels so limited.”
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