AI Art via Stable Diffusion and Google Colab
Membership plan: Going Deeper | Topics: Creative Coding, Visual Arts
Course overview
Learn how to generate AI art in the cloud via the Stable Diffusion algorithm and Google Colab notebooks
- Learn how to set up and run Google Colab notebooks in the cloud
- Explore machine learning and AI algorithms using Python code in your browser
- Run the popular text to image algorithm Stable Diffusion to create machine learning art
- Use open-source alternative to MidJourney and DALL-E platforms
- Execute basic Python and Bash commands with your browser to access an AI art generator on a Google cloud GPU
- Explore the vast landscape of ML & AI networks available on Colab
What you'll learn
- Run a cloud version of Discoart and Stable Diffusion using Google Colab
- Execute basic bash and python commands to generate AI art in the cloud
- Hack and deploy AI and machine learning notebooks running on cloud GPUs
- Begin to explore the Google Colab landscape of ML and AI notebooks for art
Who is this course for?
- Anyone who wants to get started with cloud computing and accessing ML & AI algorithms
- Visual artists who want to leverage free AI generation tools
Course content
- Guide, references and additional materials
- Google Colab project ready to go
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Intro by AIG
- 3. Finding your focus
- 4. Introduction to Google Colab
- 5. What AIG has to say
- 6. Google Colab basics
- 7. Adding to the file
- 7.1. File system director
- 8. Intro to Machine learning model piplines
- 9. Machine learning
- 10. Stable diffusion, text to image
- 11. Installation
- 12. Environment variables & C++
- 13. Keep running code
- 14. Zen dirctory
- 15. Restart runtime
- 16. Learning real inputs
- 17. Input cells
- 18. Inference
- 19. AIG closing remarks
Requirements
- Chrome web browser to run Google Colab
- Google account
- Huggingface.co account (optional)
- Jina.ai account for saving training for discoart and recalling images (optional)
Course schedule
Meet your instructor
Gennaro Schiano is a multidimensional musician and artist playing a digital nomad in the current stem of reality. He is a three time Grammy winning recording/mixing Engineer, Zen practitioner and computer enthusiast/educator. He is researching new and interesting ways for independent artists to create their own economies and generate unique content in real time using the right amount of effort.
