Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and the future of art creation

The recent explosion of AI art generators A pretty impressive new technology has been dominating the machine learning news lately: diffusion models for generative art. The diffusion part of the model is relatively simple; random noise is added to an image, and a neural network is given the random noise…

Covid Vaccine Fearmongering

As you may have seen, anti-vaxxers have been going crazy over the new mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines. Statements like “it’s not a vaccine” (if you’re an anti-vaxxer, wouldn’t that be a good thing?), “its gene therapy”, and “it will modify your DNA”, are just a few of the…