An unusual warning was issued by Openai when it announced a new service called DALL-E 2. In response to a line of text, the system can generate vivid and realistic photos, paintings, and illustrations. The model may increase the efficiency of performing some tasks like photo editing or production of stock photography, which could replace jobs of designers, photographers, models, editors, and artists.
That hasn't happened so far. People who have been granted early access to DALL-E have found that it makes them more creative. Benjamin Von Wong said it has increased his productivity. Von Wong uses Dell-E to explore ideas that could later be built into physical works of art. I don't need to sketch out concepts because I can generate them through different prompt phrases.
DALL-E is an artificial intelligence tool for generating images. Aza Raskin used open source software to create a music video for a musician that was shown at the TED conference. The project helped convince him that artificial intelligence will cause an explosion of creativity. He says that anything that can have a visual will have one. We have a tool that makes it easy to make something happen.
It's too early to know how the technology will affect the creative industries. The idea that artistic artificial intelligence will replace workers in creative jobs seems to be an oversimplification. The evidence for industrialrobots is mixed. Some economic studies suggest that the adoption ofrobots by companies results in lower employment and lower wages, but there is also evidence that they increase job opportunities.
Noah Bradley says there is too much doom and gloom in the art community, where people think machines can replace humans. The impact of software like DALL-E will be similar to the effect of phones on photography, according to Bradley. He says that it takes a lot of careful tweaking after an image is created. Creating art that machines are not ready for is a lot of work.
The first version of DALL-E was a landmark for computer generated art. It showed that machine-learning data could reproduce and recombine features from existing images in novel ways.
The quality of images can be improved by DALL-E 2. It can make images that are more realistic. A studio-quality photograph of a dog in a beret and black turtleneck is what you want. Go ahead and type that in. There is an illustration of a castle in the sky. There is no problem. The Declaration of Independence is signed by a group of women. It's a great idea.
Many people are experimenting with DALL-E and similar artificial intelligence tools as artistic assistants or muses. David R Munson, a photographer, writer, and English teacher in Japan, has been using DALL-E for the past two weeks. It is trying to understand a text prompt and communicate back to us what it sees, and it just kind of wriggles in this amazing way and produces things that you really don't expect.