Latent Diffusion
How to Stop AI Depicting iPhones in Bygone Eras
How do AI image generators picture the past? New research indicates that they drop smartphones into the 18th century, insert laptops into 1930s scenes, and place vacuum cleaners in 19th-century homes, raising questions about how these models imagine history – and whether they are capable of contextual historical accuracy at all. Early in 2024,…
Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion
PLAID is a multimodal generative model that simultaneously generates protein 1D sequence and 3D structure, by learning the latent space of protein folding models. The awarding of the 2024 Nobel Prize to AlphaFold2 marks an important moment of recognition for the of AI role in biology. What comes next after protein folding? In PLAID, we…