Did you ever imagine that you could draw images using text? It may seem impossible but a new AI called Dall-E can do it for you. It can draw perfect, unique and artistically-correct images. All you have to do is describe them in a text input. The most surprising thing about Dall-E is that it can draw high-quality images in only 10 seconds. So if you are a visual artist, you should be scared now because this AI might be replacing you real soon!
What is Dall-E?
Dall-E is a powerful text-to-image generator that was released in April 2022 by the Artificial Intelligence research group, OpenAI. It can draw virtually anything you ask. For example, you can ask it to draw an Astronaut riding a horse, a chicken riding a bike, or anything you can think of. The outcomes will almost always be visually appealing artistically, with accurate colours and features that resemble what a true artist would include.
For a long time, AI technology has encroached on many fields, traditionally run by humans–mostly technical tasks. It has been instrumental in predicting oil deposits, recognizing CT scans, doing facial recognitions, etc. However, until the discovery of Dall-E, arts had been the only field that AI technology hadn’t raided. Probably because arts require a combination of skill, creativity, and a very human element of aesthetic taste.
How it Does it
Dall-E uses two main technologies built by openAI. The first one is a computer vision system called CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training). The second is a language model called GPT-3. It can understand and respond to text written by humans. It can also have conversations, understand context, and write lengthy original text. Even more, it can read and summarize information for you.
Before you get excited, Dall-E is currently in beta stages and not available for the general public. However, OpenAI has announced that it will invite 1 million people over the coming weeks to participate in testing it before it is released. You can try it out if you are curious and want to be among the first to experience Dall-E’s creativity.
