OpenAI's New Model is Amazing! DALL·E 2 Explained Simply

Written by whatsai | Published 2022/04/07
Tech Story Tags: open-ai | ai | artificial-intelligence | dall-e | dall-e-2 | dalle | machine-learning | computer-vision | web-monetization

TLDRLast year I shared DALL·E, an amazing model by OpenAI capable of generating images from a text input with incredible results. Now is time for his big brother, DALL ·E 2, who is four times better at generating photorealistic images from text. The recent model learned a new skill; image inpainting. It can also edit those images and make them look even better! Or simply add a feature you want like some flamingos in the background. Learn more in the video!via the TL;DR App

Last year I shared DALL·E, an amazing model by OpenAI capable of generating images from a text input with incredible results. Now is time for his big brother, DALL·E 2. And you won’t believe the progress in a single year! DALL·E 2 is not only better at generating photorealistic images from text. The results are four times the resolution!
As if it wasn’t already impressive enough, the recent model learned a new skill; image inpainting.
DALL·E could generate images from text inputs.
DALL·E 2 can do it better, but it doesn’t stop there. It can also edit those images and make them look even better! Or simply add a feature you want like some flamingos in the background.
Sounds interesting? Learn more in the video!

References

►Read the full article: https://www.louisbouchard.ai/openais-new-model-dall-e-2-is-amazing/
►A. Ramesh et al., 2022, DALL-E 2 paper: https://cdn.openai.com/papers/dall-e-2.pdf
►OpenAI's blog post: https://openai.com/dall-e-2
►Risks and limitations: https://github.com/openai/dalle-2-preview/blob/main/system-card.md
►OpenAI Dalle's instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/openaidalle/
►My Newsletter (A new AI application explained weekly to your emails!): https://www.louisbouchard.ai/newsletter/

Video Transcript

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last year i shared dolly an amazing
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model by openai capable of generating
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images from a texan foot with incredible
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results now it's time for his big
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brother dolly too and you won't believe
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the progress in a single year dolly 2 is
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not only better at generating
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photorealistic images from texts the
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results are four times the resolution as
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if it wasn't already impressive enough
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the recent model learned a new skill
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image in painting delhi could generate
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images from text inputs dolly 2 can do
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it better but it doesn't stop there it
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can also edit those images and make them
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look even better or simply add a feature
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you want like some flapping goes in the
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background this is what image and
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painting is we take the part of an image
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and replace it with something else
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following the style and reflections in
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the image keeping realism of course it
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doesn't only replace the part of the
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image at random this will be too easy
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for openai this in-painting process is
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also text guided which means you can
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tell it to add a famine go here there or
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even there
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before diving into the nitty-gritty of
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this newest dahle model let me talk a
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now let's dive into how dolly 2 can not
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only generate images from text but is
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also capable of editing them indeed this
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new in-painting skill the network has
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learned is due to its better
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understanding of concepts and the images
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themselves locally and globally what i
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mean by locally and globally is that
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dahle 2 has a deeper understanding of
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why the pixels next to each other has
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these colors as it understands the
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objects in the scene and their
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interrelation to each other this way it
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will be able to understand that this
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water has reflection and the object on
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the right should be also reflected there
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it also understands the global scene
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which is what is happening just like if
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you were to describe what is going on
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when the person took the photo here
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you'd say that this photo does not exist
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obviously or else i'm definitely down to
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try that if we forget that this is
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impossible you'd say that the astronaut
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is riding a horse in space so if i were
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to ask you to draw the same scene but on
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a planet rather than in free space you'd
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be able to picture something like that
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since you understand that the horse and
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astronaut are the objects of interest to
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keep in the picture this seems obvious
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but it's extremely complex for a machine
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that only sees pixels of colors which is
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why dahli 2 is so impressive to me but
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how exactly does the model understand
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the text we send it and can generate an
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image out of it well it's pretty similar
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to the first model i covered on the
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channel it starts by using the clip
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model by openai to encode both a text
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and an image into the same domain a
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condensed representation called a latent
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code then it will take this encoding and
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use a generator also called a decoder to
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generate a new image that means the same
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thing as the text since it's from the
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same latent code so dali 2 has two steps
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clip to encode the information and the
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new decoder model to take this encoded
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information and generate an image out of
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it these two separated steps are also
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why we can generate variations of the
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images we can simply randomly change the
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encoded information just a little making
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it move a tiny bit in the latent space
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and it will still represent the same
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sentence while having all different
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values creating a different image
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representing the same text as we see
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here it initially takes a text input and
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encodes it what we see above is the
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first step of the training process where
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we also feed it an image and encode it
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using clip so that images and text are
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encoded similarly following the clip
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objective then for generating a new
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image we switch to the section below
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where we use the text encoding guided by
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clip to transform it into an image ready
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encoding this transformation is done
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using a diffusion prior which we will
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cover shortly as it is very similar to
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the diffusion model used for the final
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step finally we use our newly created
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image encoding and decode it into a new
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image using the diffusion decoder a
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diffusion decoder or modal is a kind of
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model that starts with random noise and
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learns how to iteratively change this
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noise to get back to an image it learns
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that by doing the opposite during
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training we will feed it images and
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apply random gaussian noise on the image
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iteratively until we can't see anything
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other than noise then we simply reverse
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the model to generate images from noise
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if you'd like more detail about this
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kind of network which are really cool i
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invite you to watch this video i made
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about them and voila this is how dali 2
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generates such high quality images
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following text it's super impressive and
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tells us that the model does understand
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the text but does it deeply understand
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what it created
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well it sure looks like it it's the
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capability of impainting images that
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makes us believe that it does understand
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the pictures pretty well but why is that
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so how can it link a text input to an
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image and understand the image enough to
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replace only some parts of it without
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affecting the realism this is all
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because of clip as it links a text input
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to an image if we encode back our newly
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generated image and use a different text
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input to guide another generation we can
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generate the second version of the image
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that will replace only the wanted region
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in our first generation and you will end
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up with this picture unfortunately the
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code isn't publicly available and is not
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in their api yet the reason for that as
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per openai is to study the risks and
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limitations of such a powerful model
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they actually discuss these potential
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risks and the reason for this privacy in
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their paper and in a great repository i
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linked in the description below if you
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are interested they also opened an
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instagram account to share more results
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if you'd like to see that it's also
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linked below i loved dally and this one
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is even cooler
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of course this was just an overview of
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how dahli2 works and i strongly invite
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reading their great paper linked below
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for more detail on their implementation
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of the model i hope you enjoyed this
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video as much as i enjoyed making it and
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i will see you next week with another
amazing paper thank you for watching




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