General Intelligence

Take a Look at How Far Image Generation A.I. Has Come in Just 5 Years

DALL-E can create images based on text descriptions alone

Dave Gershgorn
OneZero
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5 min readJan 11, 2021

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OpenAI is earning a reputation for building some of the A.I. industry’s most futuristic prototypes.

The Microsoft-backed research outfit is now led by Y Combinator founder Sam Altman. It’s best known for its powerful text generator, GPT-3, but in the last few years has also built a robotic hand that taught itself to solve a Rubik’s Cube, a team of superhuman esports algorithms, an algorithm that composes convincingly human music, and algorithms that can play games and use tools to learn complex strategies.

Last week, OpenAI released DALL-E, an A.I. system that can generate images based on written text. For example, in response to the prompt “a leather purse in the shape of an avocado. a leather purse imitating an avocado,” the system can generate dozens of iterations on the idea of a leather avocado purse.

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Dave Gershgorn
Dave Gershgorn

Written by Dave Gershgorn

Senior Writer at OneZero covering surveillance, facial recognition, DIY tech, and artificial intelligence. Previously: Qz, PopSci, and NYTimes.