OpenAI’s latest strange yet fascinating creation is DALL-E, which by way of hasty summary might be called “GPT-3 for images.” It creates illustrations, photos, renders or whatever method you prefer, of anything you can intelligibly describe, from “a cat wearing a bow tie” to “a daikon radish in a tutu walking a dog.” But don’t write stock photography and illustration’s obituaries just yet.
As usual, OpenAI’s description of its invention is quite readable and not overly technical. But it bears a bit of contextualizing.
What researchers created with GPT-3 was an AI that, given a prompt, …
