#66: DALL-E 2, The Creative Process, and Blogging Tools

Experiments with OpenAI’s text-to-image generation AI system DALL-E 2, mini-essays on the creative process and being done, and blogging tools you can use.

Links

• DALL-E 2, Explained by Nono (video)
• Variations of "A minimalist 3d render of a balloon car" plus "A sunflower" by Edward Hopper by Nono x DALL-E
• OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 publication
• Google Imagen: Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
• Google Parti: Pathways Autoregressive Text-to-Image Model
• The meaning of done (post)
• If it's not fun, you shouldn't do it (post)
• Another one of those (post)
• Folio: Nono’s content management system
• Substack, Twitter Writer & Medium (blogging platforms)
• Ghost, WordPress, Jekyll, Hugo & Next.js (blogging frameworks)
• Nono’s sketches and stories
• YouTube channel

Books

• Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio

People mentioned

• Frank Harmon
• Ray Dalio

Chapters

• 00:00 · Introduction
• 00:39 · An incoming conversation with Frank Harmon
• 01:34 · Episode contents
• 01:55 · DALL-E 2 and AI systems
• 06:45 · What can DALL-E do?
• 09:54 · GPT-3: Language models
• 12:05 · Mini-Essays on the creative process
• 12:15 · Mini-Essay: The meaning of done
• 13:38 · Mini-Essay: If it's no fun, you shouldn't do it
• 15:33 · Mini-Essay: Another one of those
• 16:51 · Writing series
• 17:51 · What does Nono use for blogging?
• 22:45 · Outro

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