Today started out totally normal for me. I got up, let the dogs out, grabbed a cup of coffee, and sat down to read the news. But then an article in the Washington Post completely changed the course of my entire day. And forgive me in advance, but it's likely to steal all of the free time you thought you had, too.
The article I read was about DALL-E, an artificial intelligence, text-to-image generator that has just become widely available to the public. A text-to-image generator is software that can use regular text to create an image. So if I input a phrase like "pencil drawing of a dog," DALL-E will give me several computer-generated images that look like pencil drawings of dogs. And judging by the Washington Post sample images, I could see that DALL-E is very good at what it does. The article was focused mainly on how this type of AI can be dangerous--and I can see that angle. For example, people wanting to make a point could generate fake photographic evidence to claim something happened when it actually didn't.
But of course I wasn't interested in DALL-E because I want to create conspiracies or topple governments, I just wanted to see how good this thing is at rendering photographs of dolls. And it's darn good...at least some of the time:
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| DALL-E redhead doll in a blue polka dot dress. |
