DALL·E 2 Will Disrupt Art Deeper Than Photography Did
The end of art or a new beginning?
Are we going to soon witness the creative genius of a virtual Picasso or Leonardo da Vinci?
We could be on the way with the latest trend in the AI field: visual generative models. While systems like GPT-3 create text from text, others like DALL·E 2 — a wordplay between Spanish painter Salvador Dalí and Pixar’s cute robot WALL·E — can create visual art from words. As you can see from the cover image of this article, this tech gives a new meaning to the idiom “an image is worth a thousand words.”
OpenAI, the company behind DALL·E 2, announced the model in April. In just a couple of months, it has sounded all the alarms that AI is getting too close to human-level visual creativity. It can create anything you can imagine — and anything you can’t — from a single sentence.
And OpenAI isn’t alone. A month ago Google Brain announced Imagen, a similar — and even slightly better — model. And just yesterday, another team from Google Brain released …