Google Imagen 2

>>geox+(OP)
This post has more information: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/i...

I can't figure out how to try this thing. The closest I got was this sentence:

"To get started with Imagen 2 on Vertex AI, find our documentation or reach out to your Google Cloud account representative to join the Trusted Tester Program."

>>simonw+Q7
I think the process is

1. Go to console.cloud.google.com

2. Go to model garden

3. Search imagegeneration

4. End up at https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/publishers/google...

And for whatever reason that is where the documentation is.

Sample request

    curl -X POST \
        -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
        -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
        -d @request.json \
        "https://us-central1-aiplatform.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/us-central1/publishers/google/models/imagegeneration@002:predict"

Sample request.json

    {
      "instances": [
        {
          "prompt": "TEXT_PROMPT"
        }
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "sampleCount": IMAGE_COUNT
      }
    }

Sample response

    {
      "predictions": [
        {
          "bytesBase64Encoded": "BASE64_IMG_BYTES",
          "mimeType": "image/png"
        },
        {
          "mimeType": "image/png",
          "bytesBase64Encoded": "BASE64_IMG_BYTES"
        }
      ],
      "deployedModelId": "DEPLOYED_MODEL_ID",
      "model": "projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/us-central1/models/MODEL_ID",
      "modelDisplayName": "MODEL_DISPLAYNAME",
      "modelVersionId": "1"
    }

Disclaimer: Haven't actually tried sending a request...

>>gpm+rw
Once I finally got mostly set up for that, with billing and everything, it said it's only available for a limited number of customers, with a "request access" link to a google form with further links (to enable https://aiplatform.googleapis.com/) which 404.

What a shitshow.

>>6gvONx+6A1
Google seems to be desperately trying to show that they’re still relevant in AI, but they always end up with half-assed demos and presentations of products that don’t exist yet.

>>behnam+0D1
Isn't "half assed" a fairly accurate description of basically every google product since gmail and Android (and arguably that's been a rolling dumpster fire)

Even calendaring was something that took ages for them to get right. For something like a decade you couldn't move an event from one calendar to another on Android - only via the destop web view.

Google went from being an innovative company to a web version of IBM...a giant lumbering dinosaur that can't get out of its own way, and everyone kinda needs but also deeply loathes

>>KennyB+cK1
How has Android been a dumpster fire? I don't even think it's arguable.

>>Grazes+YS1
They may have had the occasional advantage over iOS for a brief period 5-6 years ago. Nowadays they clearly lag behind Apple on everything and even their Pixel line does a half-assed copy/paste of the latest iPhone features (or introduces features which are shiny but have some sort of downside or require cloud processing to work).

Android's advantage has always been that everyone else gets to play. And it's good that we have that. But they aren't exactly the beacon of innovation they think they are or claim to be in marketing copy.

>>Shamel+m02
Especially in regards to Android, feature parity is just not that high on my wishlist. It makes calls, apps run on it, happy days. It's like knowing my car has running gear parity with another brand, when most of us are just using them to drive to work.

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