Category: A.I.
AI and Machine Learning
Clearview AI fined in UK for illegally storing facial images
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61550776
Facial recognition company Clearview AI has been fined more than £7.5m by the UK’s privacy watchdog and told to delete the data of UK residents.
The ICO says that, globally, the company has stored more than 20 billion facial images.
Clearview AI takes publicly posted pictures from Facebook, Instagram and other sources, usually without the knowledge of the platform or any permission.
Disco Diffusion V4.1 Google Colab, Dall-E, Starryai – creating images with AI
Disco Diffusion (DD) is a Google Colab Notebook which leverages an AI Image generating technique called CLIP-Guided Diffusion to allow you to create compelling and beautiful images from just text inputs. Created by Somnai, augmented by Gandamu, and building on the work of RiversHaveWings, nshepperd, and many others.
Phone app: https://www.starryai.com/
docs.google.com/document/d/1l8s7uS2dGqjztYSjPpzlmXLjl5PM3IGkRWI3IiCuK7g
colab.research.google.com/drive/1sHfRn5Y0YKYKi1k-ifUSBFRNJ8_1sa39
Colab, or “Colaboratory”, allows you to write and execute Python in your browser, with
– Zero configuration required
– Access to GPUs free of charge
– Easy sharing
https://80.lv/articles/a-beautiful-roman-villa-made-with-disco-diffusion-5-2/
NVidia – NeRF AI Recreates Unconstrained Scene Views From Photos in 2 seconds
Neural Radiance Fields for Unconstrained Photo Collections
https://nvlabs.github.io/instant-ngp/
Oliver Theobald – Machine Learning For Absolute Beginners
http://infinity.wecabrio.com/B07335JNW1-machine-learning-for-absolute-beginners-a-plain-e.pdf