Few A.I. advancements have slacked my jaw so thoroughly as DALLE-2. It conjures dreams.
Here’s how it works: Type in anything you want to see and bam, your imagination manifests into reality.
From, “baby capuchin monkey looking through the magnifying glass, detailed, portrait, dark background” this image emerges.
Every pixel is machine engineered.
It's difficult to gauge how technically impressive it is, but it strikes at the heart of the human soul. DALLE-2 has an “understanding” of “capuchin monkey” because millions of web images are used as substrate material to train a neural net. But this monkey doesn’t exist. Sci-fi has depicted AI overtaking artists for decades and seemingly overnight, here we are.
Some images are dreamlike, spooky.
“Two little girls traveling through space on bikes” (from @MillionInt)
Add any style you want to transform a scene.
“Teddy bears mixing sparkling chemicals as mad scientists in the style of steampunk”(@OpenAI)
“Teddy bears mixing sparkling chemicals as mad scientists in the style of a 1990s Saturday morning cartoon” (@OpenAI)
And if you want photo realism, just ask.
Remember, every pixel is freshly baked by A.I.
“A fluffy baby sloth with a knitted hat trying to figure out a laptop, close up, highly detailed, studio lighting, screen reflecting in its eyes” (@OpenAI)
A yellow and black bus cruising through the rainforest, it is raining, large reflective puddles, sun shining through the canopy (@OpenAI)
“An ancient Egyptian painting depicting an argument over whose turn it is to take out the trash" (@LapineDeLaTerre)
Fucking everything.
Dreams turned into reality with a text message.
The software is godlike. Children born today will not appreciate this, as it will become their baseline. So, let’s make it clear to anchor the moment: A.I. is doing something different now.
The image below is an archetypical example of the incoming disruption to the marketplace.
“Shrimp Budget the sports team logo” (BramAdams)
A minor-league baseball team might pay a sizeable fee for this. They would pay extra for a mascot, alternate jerseys, and customer merchandise. All of these designs can be generated instantaneously, for free.
In games like chess, Jeopardy, or finding cheap flights, precise rules constrain what A.I. is tasked to achieve.
But this isn’t checkmate, a hot deal, or trivial answers. What DALLE-2 displays here is… dare I say imagination?
I could say more, but I’m just astonished. It might be the most technically impressive thing I’ve ever seen.
I’d recommend pouring yourself a glass of your finest beverage, and listen to the track below while scrolling through the DALLE-2 subreddit sorted by all-time votes
Watch what emerges. Enjoy :)