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title: Stable diffusion dreams of steampunk brains
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  Prompt: "ultrarealistic steam punk neural network machine in the shape of a
  brain, placed on a pedestal, covered with neurons made of gears. dramatic
  lighting. #unrealengine" Stable diffusion takes a noise vector as input and
  samples an image. To create this video I smoothly (spherically) interpolate
  between randomly chosen noise vectors and render frames along the way. This
  video was produced by one A100 GPU dreaming about the prompt overnight (~8
  hours). While I slept and dreamt about other things. This is version 2 video
  of this prompt, with (I think?) a bit higher quality and trippy AGI music.
  Music: Wonders by JVNA Links: - Stable diffusion: https://stability.ai/blog -
  Code used to make this video:
  https://gist.github.com/karpathy/00103b0037c5aaea32fe1da1af553355 - My
  twitter: https://twitter.com/karpathy
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# Stable diffusion dreams of steampunk brains

Prompt: "ultrarealistic steam punk neural network machine in the shape of a brain, placed on a pedestal, covered with neurons made of gears. dramatic lighting. #unrealengine" Stable diffusion takes a noise vector as input and samples an image. To create this video I smoothly (spherically) interpolate between randomly chosen noise vectors and render frames along the way. This video was produced by one A100 GPU dreaming about the prompt overnight (~8 hours). While I slept and dreamt about other things. This is version 2 video of this prompt, with (I think?) a bit higher quality and trippy AGI music. Music: Wonders by JVNA Links: - Stable diffusion: https://stability.ai/blog - Code used to make this video: https://gist.github.com/karpathy/00103b0037c5aaea32fe1da1af553355 - My twitter: https://twitter.com/karpathy

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