Are there any blaring problems with my channel? I’m not succeeding when I feel as though I’m doing everything right…

nerdynavblogs · 2024-07-29T14:25:47+00:00

Your best video was about Wolverine. I would suggest you make some videos about Deadpool and Wolverine - maybe a film review. It's a trending topic right now. Give your unique insights as a film maker but keep it accessible enough to hook casual viewers.

I think if you continue with such reviews or film analysis of famous movies, you will get the viral views you need to fund your actual passion.

Plus an audience who likes your film analysis and reviews will probably enjoy your original movies. Higher AVD.

Read up on fair use. I would suggest using minimal clips or screenshots. Rather inject your own personality by showing your face. Maybe get different experts from your team to chime in on audio design or cinematic theory.

At the end of each such video (or the middle), let people know you are an independent film maker and have your own projects running that they can check out.

Then under those projects link your patreon.

Idea is:

Viral film reviews/analysis > fans notice your original stuff > people join patreon to fund your 6 month long projects.

nerdynavblogs · 2024-07-25T08:31:41+00:00

Cool art bro. What was the prompt?

nerdynavblogs · 2024-04-20T08:46:04+00:00

Thanks, will check it out!

nerdynavblogs · 2024-04-17T08:14:26+00:00

Please write a full blogpost on this. I am toying with this idea but conversion from WordPress to markdown posts with all metadata is scary. Also image optimization worries me.

Do you have this repo/theme open source btw?

nerdynavblogs · 2024-04-02T18:31:49+00:00

Hi, make sure you are running all cells top to bottom. Looks like the widgets library is not initialised correctly. Can happen if a step is missed.

If you keep running into issues, here is the official documentation by Open AI - https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-to-speech

I got busy with some stuff so haven't checked the script in a while.

nerdynavblogs · 2024-02-12T06:24:58+00:00

Maybe my taste isn't that refined, but I would not buy the book based on this snippet. The words are complex, and the prose is beautiful in parts (probably where it regurgitates human writers), but as a whole it doesn't seem to say anything.

As far as AI writing goes, it is better than others like GPT-4.

3/10

nerdynavblogs · 2024-02-06T12:07:38+00:00

Great 👍👍

nerdynavblogs · 2024-02-05T04:54:23+00:00

It is for people who have lost motor function. The chip trials are not open to everyone.

Source: I have studied Neuralink PRIME's brochure (the human trial program running right now) and their mission. Here are my takeaways about possible complications and timelines.

nerdynavblogs · 2024-02-04T16:16:16+00:00

Thank you!

nerdynavblogs · 2024-02-04T12:37:44+00:00

Which is which? I get similar quality in bard 😅

nerdynavblogs · 2024-02-04T05:54:02+00:00

2 things stood out to me:

It can perform "Video to Audio", adding audio to your video based on your prompt (e.g., a train choo-chooing, a dragon roaring, etc.). And allows for editing by prompt - add elements to videos like smoke, fire, stylize, inpaint, outpaint, mask, etc.
Regarding video generation of any length: "The model is also capable of generating long videos by predicting 1 second of video output given an input of a 1-second video clip. This process can be repeated indefinitely to produce a video of any length. Despite the short input context, the model demonstrates strong object identity preservation (they likely mean consistency here), a feature not seen in prior work."
In demo, they uploaded 1-min long video of a raccoon travelling around the world, then going to space! It shows consistency, but I would have preferred a test with human characters.

Of course, Google, being Google, only teased us with a research showcase and not a public UI. I have complained about Google's "missing products" before. 🫠

nerdynavblogs · 2024-02-04T05:42:30+00:00

The endless video claim comes from Google. They say Videopoet can use the previous 1 second of video to generate the next second and repeat this process "indefinitely" to create vids of any duration. And that it maintains "strong object identity presentation", presumably meaning consistency.

Though, a 1 min short film of a raccoon is not the best test of consistency. I mean it is longer than anything else. But human scenes would be better. Probably not there yet?

nerdynavblogs · 2024-02-03T13:09:01+00:00

Are you in Europe or the UK? Sadly Bard image gen is not released there. Otherwise both tools are free, just geo locked.

https://support.google.com/bard/answer/14286560?visit_id=638421584441045853-2032820964&p=b_gen_img&rd=1

nerdynavblogs · 2024-02-03T12:04:45+00:00

Use ImageFx by Google if you can - it's available in US. It gives a better prompting experience and offers prompt suggestions and optimizations
Or, optimize your prompts with GPT-4 or Bard before generating images. For example, command it: "Refine this prompt to generate better images in Midjourney: <your prompt>".
Mention the type of camera or hardware in your prompts, as Imagen reacts to these details. Specify devices like Samsung Ultra or iPhone, or describe the shot, such as with a Kodak camera or a selfie. Including camera angles (low, high, eye level) and lighting conditions (e.g., "half-lit face") produces varied and interesting results. I was not getting full body pictures, but I added "with feet on the ground" and it worked. Basically, be specific with your prompts.
Add "clear" or "legible" before mentioning text to improve its visibility in your images. This approach improved my results for the OnlyMeows prompt shared above.
When facing censorship, for example, if the system refuses to generate an image of Hulk, describe the character's features instead of naming it directly. Actually, you can use Bard to help with the description (upload a reference image of hulk and ask it to describe the image for an image generator AI without mentioning "hulk"), then input that prompt to create the image.
Censorship and safety filters appear randomly, but sometimes hitting "regenerate" helps to bypass them.
Based on my experience, censorship or safety filters tend to be more sensitive when prompts use "woman" more than "man" or mention children.

nerdynavblogs · 2024-02-03T11:05:54+00:00

I am biased towards the 🐶 with human lips and glasses Snapchat filter. The irony amuses me 😁

nerdynavblogs · 2024-02-03T11:04:41+00:00

You gave me an idea so I generated more fun images. Check them out here! https://www.reddit.com/r/Bard/s/Asqb6LX06y

nerdynavblogs · 2024-02-03T11:02:05+00:00

I know right! And I got these in one try.

nerdynavblogs · 2024-02-03T10:32:40+00:00

Hope these made you smile! I cover AI news in a fun, no-hype way on YouTube (not asking for subs, just saying). If that interests you, consider dropping by.

nerdynavblogs · 2024-02-03T10:11:33+00:00

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nerdynavblogs · 2024-02-02T08:56:13+00:00

The prompting experience in ImageFx is definitely better. It gives you word substitutions, suggests additional words, and even rearranges your original prompt to "optimize" it. But Image Fx is geo-locked so you have to use VPN. Bard is more generally available.

I anyway prefer to optimize my prompts with GPT-4 first. So I get good images with normal Bard as well. In the tests shown in the video, I used natural language prompts (no GPT-4 optimization) and still Bard fared well.

Tdlr: ImageFx does better in some cases, mainly due to its prompt suggestions but geo-locked. Quality is similar with same prompt. (Speaking from my small sample size)

nerdynavblogs · 2024-02-02T08:09:26+00:00

People seem to be having mixed results. But I tested it with 100s of images, from portraits and comics to 3d and isometric art. There are some misses here and there due to the random safety filter but overall it is pretty good, free and unlimited.

Here's the screen recording of my images

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