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Give this AI a few words of description and it produces a stunning image – but is it art?

  • Written by Aaron Hertzmann, Affiliate Faculty of Computer Science, University of Washington
Give this AI a few words of description and it produces a stunning image – but is it art?Each set of images takes less than a minute for DALL-E 2 to generate.koktaro/iStock/Getty Images

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but thanks to an artificial intelligence program called DALL-E 2, you can have a professional-looking image with far fewer.

DALL-E 2 is a new neural network algorithm that creates a picture from a short phrase or...

Read more: Give this AI a few words of description and it produces a stunning image – but is it art?

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