I asked Bing Chat why it says it can't create images for me.

>The Bing Image Creator feature is a new feature that allows you to create images with your words. It is currently available in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

So just one hour after Google Bard we have yet another senselessly geoblocked feature.

edit: Okay, the separate link (https://www.bing.com/images/create) works, so I'm even more confused why Microsoft wouldn't allow access to this from Bing Chat.

For those using it on the Bing mobile app, in the lower right corner click Apps then you'll see a link to the image creator.

I've not played with it much but I'd say the quality and ease of use was better than Stable Diffusion but not quite on par with Midjourney.

Could you tell what the difference in language understanding is between Midourney and this AI (apparently Dall-E 3)? Visual quality is one thing, following the prompt is another. Example:

A monk playing chess with a clown

Two yellow books on top of three blue books

Edit: I have the Bing mobile app (Android), but the image creator is not present in the "app" list on the lower right.

My MJ sub has now lapsed unfortunately otherwise I'd do the comparison for you.

Have you applied here for access to the Bing image creator?

https://www.bing.com/create

It only took a couple of days at most and I was approved.

I didn't even need to apply. It seems pretty good, though perhaps still not quite on the level of Imagen or Parti (both Google Research). For example, text still doesn't work.

Yes, the UI part is a mess. Now they have three UIs to search: old search UI, Chat like UI and image generation UI. To make this worse they are not consistent in anyway, sometimes when I scroll in the chat UI it throws me to useless search UI, and each seem to have different font sizes, colors etc. It feels like hodgepodge of things tacked together.

That is because they are all alpha UIs built by teams that need the ability to iterate independently.

> So just one hour after Google Bard we have yet another senselessly geoblocked feature.

Just checked and no geoblock for bing image creator in india as of now.

It's not senseless when countries apply laws that affect websites operated from other countries. If I'm releasing a prototype in the USA I'd rather worry about GDPR compliance down the road.

Laws regulating websites have tradeoffs and this is one of them.

Also maybe they have some loyalty to their US American countrymen. Reminds me of how a majority in polls in the US said that the Pfizer vaccine should be distributed to US Americans first, while people in almost all other countries were more in favor for international ratios. (Although this case isn't equally justified here, since the vaccine was produced by a US company, Pfizer, but developed by a German company, BioNTech.)

Realistically most of this tech was actually developed in academic labs and at Moderna, then knowledge leached out to biotech competitors.

> while people in almost all other countries were more in favor for international ratios

I have seen the first polling you've mentioned (66% of Americans favor prioritizing US). I would love the source if you have it on similar polling for people outside the US on whether to prioritize their own country.

I don't think the technology was leaked from Moderna, as BioNTech was a major player in this mRNA technology before.

I don't have the poll, but as far as I remember only in the US was the majority for prioritizing the own country. Though the amount of money spent on "project warp speed", a US effort not matched anywhere else, could play a role here.

AUKUS rising

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who can't stand the new design.

Fortunately, I found that Wikipedia allows to select the old design in the account preferences when you're logged in. You can even switch back to the very old pre-2010 theme.

I migrated to Aegis a few months ago and would recommend it.

Exporting the configuration was a bit tricky, but I found a guide on GitHub: https://gist.github.com/gboudreau/94bb0c11a6209c82418d01a59d...

Huh. When I compare RAW output from my D5300 (using the default 18-55 mm lens) and a Pixel 6, the difference is staggering. Granted, the JPG output from the Pixel is usually on par with the JPG from the DSLR, high dynamic range is something where the Pixel is even a bit better most of the time.

But once you take RAW photos and hit the Auto button in Lightroom, the Pixel doesn't hold a chance against the D5300.

Sure, prosumers like us can squeeze extra juice out of the DSLR. But our mothers cannot.

It doesn't even have to be a prosumer, average kids in my city know raw and post process. Kids are very familiar with editing, in fact, gen z is also blowing gen y out of water when it comes to editing video.

That was a bit sexist. But most people can't frame, compose or level either. So doing some automated post-processing inside a phone won't help.

Q: If you were a large language model trained by OpenAI, which large language model trained by OpenAI would you be?

A: I would be GPT-3, the largest and most advanced language model trained by OpenAI.

Eh, different people like different tastes, sure. I wouldn't judge someone for liking the taste of a Red Delicious. But there are some practically universally disdained qualities, like mealiness. And Red Delicious is definitely one of the worst offenders in that regards, making it an (almost) objectively bad cultivar.

Cables in both Berlin and Dortmund were severed around the same time. This smells of a larger, coordinated oepration.

Not really. It's not hard to pull off you just need around 4 people, maybe 2 would work, too.

Getting illegal short term access to the cables around there long runs isn't hard. Like at all.

Finding which cable need to be cut is a bit harder but not too hard either. (It's not a state secret or anything, there are quite a bunch of people which know stuff like that. Worse just by following news in recent years about what interruptions cable theft caused is probably enough to find out where you need to cut cables.) Sure it involves a bit of planing and research etc. But nothing which is beyond what a small handful of misguided but not very stupid people can archive. And in my experience people in the group I mentioned are not stupid at all, misguided sure, but not stupid.

I simply cannot reconcile it with my conscience to not only indirectly but also directly pay a company that now practically operates according to the motto "be evil".

I don't think Google is particularly evil in the grand scheme of things. If that's the bar then there are very few companies that I can buy goods and services from.

Its more about paying the creators than Google. Premium videos are reportedly worth more to creators.

This ignores the fact that these labs are often built closely to where the viruses in question naturally occur.

Ah that's a good point.

So your CSV file would need 1 more column: `type`, `bioWeaponsLab|naturalVirusHotspot`, and then you could have a toggle to see one at a time (or both, overlaid).

If anyone makes this CSV with data vis and published to GitHub and it's good I'll send you $500USD worth of NEAR coin or my eternal gratitude and respect (whichever you value more).

As of yet, there was only this one big strike that is a real problem. The frequency of micrometeoroids of this size and energy was predicted to be fairly low, so it isn't certain yet if this was extremely bad luck or if these events are more frequent than anticipated (which would be very bad news).

The JWST performance report[1] says on page 18/19: "It is not yet clear whether the May 2022 hit to segment C3 was a rare event (i.e. an unlucky early strike by a high kinetic energy micrometeoroid that statistically might occur only once in several years), or whether the telescope may be more susceptible to damage by micrometeoroids than pre-launch modeling predicted."

[1]: https://www.stsci.edu/files/live/sites/www/files/home/jwst/d...