Google’s text-to-image AI model Imagen is getting its first (very limited) public outing
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Imagen will be available in Google's AI Test Kitchen app. | Image: Google Google is being extremely cautious with the release of its text-to-image AI systems. Although the company's Imagen model produces output equal in quality to OpenAI's DALL-E 2 or Stability AI's Stable Diffusion, Google hasn't made the system available to the public.
Today, though, the search giant announced it will be adding Imagen - in a very limited form - to its AI Test Kitchen app as a way to collect early feedback on the technology.
AI Test Kitchen was launched earlier this year as a way for Google to beta test various AI systems. Currently, the app offers a few different ways to interact with Google's text model LaMDA (yes, the same one that the engineer thought was sentient), and the company will soon be adding similarly...