Ben Livengood

https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917 apparently posted by a Google engineer. It could be an elaborate hoax, and has remnants of gwern's idea (https://www.gwern.net/fiction/Clippy) of a transformer waking up and having internal experience while pondering the next most likely tokens.

https://imagen.research.google/ Scaling the text encoder gives Imagen the ability to spell, count, and assign colors and properties to distinct objects in the image that DALL-E2 was not so great at. It looks visually about as photorealistic as DALL-E2 from the small set of sample images. Eyes are still weird.