Dall-E 2 mini: what exactly is ‘AI-generated art’? How does it work? Will it replace human visual artists?

Image caption: DALL:E mini AI-generated art of ‘Boris eating fish’ (via Twitter). Photograph: Neil Howard (prompt) / DALLE. Josh Nicholas explains it to Patrick Lum. The Guardian – June 9, 2022.

Josh, I’ve been hearing a lot about ‘AI-generated art’ and seeing a whole lot of truly insane-looking memes. What’s going on, are the machines picking up paintbrushes now?

Not paintbrushes, no. What you’re seeing are neural networks (algorithms that supposedly mimic how our neurons signal each other) trained to generate images from text. It’s basically a lot of math […]

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