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modelexicon

This AI Does Not Exist: generate realistic descriptions of made-up machine learning models.

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This AI Does Not Exist: generate realistic descriptions of made-up machine learning models.

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Observed mentions: 2022-04-23 19:04:31 UTC to 2022-04-23 22:14:32 UTC.

0122022-04-23 19:00:00 UTC to 2022-04-23 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsApr 23, 19:002022-04-23 20:00:00 UTC to 2022-04-23 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsApr 23, 20:002022-04-23 21:00:00 UTC to 2022-04-23 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-04-23 22:00:00 UTC to 2022-04-23 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 23, 22:00

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Apr 23, 22:002022-04-23 22:00:00 UTC2022-04-23 23:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Yep! No fine tuning. Here's the prompt I use for the description (from source, https://github.com/thesephist/modelexicon/blob/main/src/main... ) --- Proceedings of Deep Learning Advancements Conference, list of accepted deep learning models 1. [StyleGAN] StyleGAN is a generative adversarial network for style transfer between artworks. It uses a traditional GAN architecture and is trained on a dataset of 150,000 traditional and modern art. StyleGAN shows improved style transfer performance while reducing computational complexity. 2. [GPT-2] GPT-2 is a decoder-only transformer model trained on WebText, OpenAI\'s proprietary clean text corpus based on Wikipedia, Google News, Reddit, and others comprising a 2TB dataset for autoregressive training. GPT-2 demonstrates state-of-the-art performance on several language modeling and conversational
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tasks. 3. [$MODELNAME]
In Show HN: This AI Does Not Exist

Show HN: This AI Does Not Exist

Hey HN! Author of the site here. I tried a few tricks to keep the text-generation part of the site up, but even leaning hard on Huggingface's API and bumping time-outs up, it looks like the site is struggling a bit. I'm going to see if there's anything I can do to keep the text-generation part available, but in the meantime, the pre-generated set should stay pretty stable. Not sure if there's much else I can do without burning a hole in my cloud bills — sorry for the troubles! I've put up a more detailed description of how this works on the GitHub - https://github.com/thesephist/modelexicon PS - if anyone at Huggingface is reading this and wants to help out with keeping the API up, that would be super :)
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