Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a hot topic in the tech world, with many people eager to see how it will impact the future of art. One way to explore AI’s potential is to create AI art on your Mac. There are a few things you need in order to get started: an AI development environment such as Xcode or AppleScript, a neural network library such as TensorFlow or Keras, and some basic programming skills. Once you have all of these tools and resources at your disposal, you’re ready to start creating AI art! First, create a new project in Xcode. In this article, we’ll use the example project called “AI_Art” to demonstrate how easy it is to create AI art on your Mac. Next, open up TensorFlow and load the “ai_art” folder into your project. You can find this folder under “Library/TensorFlow/python/”. Once you’ve loaded TensorFlow, open up the file “configuration.py” and set up your environment variables according to your preferences: import tensorflow as tf from keras import Sequential from time import sleep # Set up our neural network library with some defaults def config (): # Define our input data source = tf . Variable ( ‘data’ ) # Define our output layer name = tf . Variable ( ‘output’ ) # Define our number of layers input_shape = ( 3 ,) output_shape = ( 2 ,) # Set up our training algorithm algorithm = tf . train . Algorithm () # Set up our testing algorithm test_algorithm = tf . train . Algorithm () print ( ‘Training succeeded:’ , algorithm . trained ()) print ( ‘Testing succeeded:’ , test_algorithm . trained ()) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Diffusion Bee is a graphical application for running Stable Diffusion on any M1 or M2 Mac computer. You don’t need to use the Terminal, and more importantly, you don’t have to download all the dependencies on your own (which usually includes frameworks like Python). Just download the application, enter a text prompt, and click the Generate button.
Under the hood, Diffusion Bee uses a fork (modified version) of Stable Diffusion that adds support for Mac computers with Apple Silicon chips. 16 GB RAM is preferred, but the app will run slowly on Mac computers with only 8 GB RAM. You also need macOS 12.5.1.
Head over to the official site to download Diffusion Bee on your Mac. It’s not available yet on the Mac App Store.
Source: GitHub
