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The time is here. Artificial intelligence is officially pretty talented at making art.
Last year, OpenAI, an AI lab funded by Microsoft, introduced , a technology that can create impressive graphics, spanning numerous styles, with written descriptions as its only prompts.
Truly. You could tell DALL-E to produce illustrations of “a baby daikon radish in a tutu walking a dog” and it could do it with ease. The system’s moniker, by the way, combines the names of surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and Pixar’s WALL-E the robot.
DALL-E is then able to imagine other elements that might belong in its scenarios and “fill in the blanks.”
“Unlike a 3D rendering engine, whose inputs must be specified unambiguously and in full detail, DALL-E is often able to ‘fill in the blanks’ when the caption implies that the image must contain a certain detail that is not explicitly stated,” OpenAI explained last year.
But like many artists, DALL-E was still figuring things out. And at long last, it has now evolved into DALL-E 2.
Prompt: “A bowl of soup that is a portal to another dimension as digital art.” Image via OpenAI
DALL-E 2 can do the same things as its predecessor, but quicker and better. Artworks it produces are more higher-res and more detailed.
According to , DALL-E 2 stands out from the previous version in its use of a diffusion model, which counterintuitively makes graphics clearer by adding noise and gradually removing it. DALL-E 2 also fills in gaps by “inpainting,” conjuring up objects such as a non-existent bird or flower species—and it can do so by including the appropriate lighting and shadows.
The technology is so remarkable, OpenAI has its qualms about releasing DALL-E 2 to the public. The new program is thus accessible by invitation only; and yet, the firm remains cautious by banning obscene or extremist terms from being added into prompts.
Interested users will have to sign up to join the tool’s waitlist for a shot to be part of the program. The rest of us will just revel at the results:
Prompt: “An astronaut riding a horse in a photorealistic style”
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“Teddy bears shopping for groceries in the style of ukiyo-e”
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“Teddy bears mixing sparkling chemicals as mad scientists… as a 1990s Saturday morning cartoon”
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“…in a steampunk style”
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