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Post 2: Dall-E 🎨

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Recently, an artificial intelligence (AI) lab called OpenAI (founded by Elon Musk) announced the update of one of its most powerful AIs called Dall-E v2 (i.e. Salvador DalĂ­ + Wall-E).

Dall-E takes any idea you give it in text form and turns it into an image. It can even mimic the style of various famous artists. (Here and in the comments, I’ll share several of the images I’ve come across on Twitter and liked, as well as a gallerycreated by Dall-E of +1000 images of robots and plants).

EThese types of AIs are not new; however, Dall-E is unique in its “creativity” power. Although the paper details some of how it was trained, we don’t really know many relevant details. But we can say that these types of AIs are trained using a combination of two models, one that understands text and another that learns to translate it into images. If you want to learn more about how it works, I highly recommend the following video: … And if you want even more, this list of videos from the same channel.

Dall-E is not available for public use and it seems it will stay that way, but you can request to use it for academic or outreach purposes (for now). Its implications will be enormous, as in about 5 years or less, we will probably see these types of technologies integrated into our phones and software. It could be a threat to those working in related fields, such as graphic design. And it also reignites the debate regarding the wave of misinformation we generate from false posts that we share without verifying what is said or the origin of the photos, which can now even be modified simply with Dall-E.

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Here more images:

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A giant iguana from space coming to eat planet Earth
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(who knows, they just asked for a mural inspired by Salvador DalĂ­)
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A robot reading a nature paper
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(who knows, they just asked for a mural inspired by flowers)
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A robot trying to learn a new language
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A child and a dog looking at the stars
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Illustration of independent researchers walking on the ground with mycelium (I loved this one)
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An impressive photograph of a Pikachu with a cape, 8K HD, incredibly detailed (this one caught me off guard)
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Scientific pugs analyzing their next big breakthrough in Brooklyn, dramatic digital art
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who knows, they just asked for underwater animal chimeras
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who knows, they just asked for animal chimeras with helicopters
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An astronaut surfing on a sea turtle over a rainbow passing planets in space, digital art
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Black loto, digital art
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A painting of a sad octopus playing the guitar with algae in the background
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Hopeful and dreamy pastel-colored illustration of a girl sprouting from a lotus flower. (This one caught me off guard because it clearly shows that the AI understands the expressiveness and emotions of a human face)
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Someone even went through the trouble of creating a mini digital gallery of several images created by the Dall-E v2, and is so cute.