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Machine learning used to be an academic pursuit. If you wanted to work on it, you probably needed to be part of a lab or have a PhD.
In early 2021, there was a shift. Advadnoun released a Colab notebook called The Big Sleep. RiversHaveWings followed up with the VQGAN+CLIP notebook. These notebooks turned text descriptions into images by guiding a GAN with CLIP.
These projects weren’t increasing some accuracy metric by a fraction of a percent. They weren’t published as academic papers. They were just pieces of software that did something neat.
Image generated by The Big Sleep, circa 2021
