Teacher's Five Billion Image Database Powers AI Unicorns
40-year-old high school teacher Christoph Schuhmann is the person behind a massive data gathering effort called LAION (Large-scale AI Open Network) which is central to the artificial intelligence boom that has seized the world’s attention. Databases like LAION are central to text-to-image generators like Google’s Imagen and Stable Diffusion, which rely on them for the enormous amounts of visual material used to deconstruct and create new images. Bloomberg technology reporter Agatha Cantrill explains.
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