Ryan Murdock / Advadnoun

My recent work is primarily in Machine Learning with focus on generative models, where I’ve done foundational research on text-to-image systems – and worked on large-scale projects that you may have heard of.

Formerly affiliated with the University of Utah, my Patreon, & Adobe; I’m currently working as a researcher at Canva / Leonardo :)

I’ve also spent time in residency at Stochastic Labs & consulted for Kaiber.

I’m especially interested in projects that:

• Mitigate representational bias & other potential harms from generative models at the levels of data, training, inference, & UI,
• Lower barriers to access to ML systems posed by data-efficiency issues and compute-requirements, and
• Adapt ML models for creative uses in ways that are process-focused, weird, &/or focus on individual aesthetics.

I’m also interested in & have worked in Art, Psychology, Linguistics, Human & Computer Vision, and Materials Informatics.

For inquiries, contact rynmurdock(at)gmail[dot]com – note that the lack of an “a” is correct :)

Selected links of Note

Also see my Google Scholar profile for more of my research; the links below are largely unlisted there due to being on Twitter or in media.

BigSleep Citations

• DALL-E2 [32]: dall-e-2.pdf
• Diffusion Models Beat GANs [2]: arxiv-abs-2105.05233
• StyleCLIP [37]: Text-Driven-Manipulation-StyleGAN.pdf

LatentVisions Acknowledgement

• From the VQGAN+CLIP paper: arxiv-abs-2204.08583

Seen in

• The New Yorker: Appreciating the poetic misunderstandings of AI Art
• The Register: David_Holz_Midjourney
• Vox on Text-Guided Visual Art: https://youtu.be/sFBfrZ-N3G4 (Easter egg: I’m sitting on the floor :D)
• Vice: AI-generated art scene explodes as hackers create groundbreaking new tools
• ARTnews: Surrealism in the Age of AI
• Artificial Intelligence in Architecture – Architectural Design: Machine Hands on Flaws to Machine: The Surprising Sources of Biases in Machine Learning Models
• A Collaboration with Joel Simon: New Words
• All Media is Training Data by Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst: Contributed essay on Subjective Models – (I have a write-up on this very site about Generative Recommenders.)