Picture this - you have a wonderful vision and can imagine the most picturesque of paintings. You pick up a pencil or a painting brush but then suddenly realise that your drawing and painting skills are poorer than that of a kid in kindergarten. A little embarrassing, isn’t it? Well, this has happened to all of us.

Mehul DasMay 09, 2022 12:19:50 IST

Think an AI system cannot replace human artists? Well, if you ask the people at OpenAI, the developers of DALL-E, they would beg to differ.

Picture this - you have a wonderful vision and can imagine the most picturesque of paintings. You pick up a pencil or a painting brush but then suddenly realise that your drawing and painting skills are poorer than that of a kid in kindergarten. A little embarrassing, isn’t it? Well, this has happened to all of us.

What if someone was to tell you that now, you can “paint” just using your words, and how one would describe a painting? Well, DALL-E, an artificial intelligence(AI) system has achieved just that.

DALL-E is a new neural network AI system that can generate kitschy photos and paintings, just using the text prompts that a user might feed it. Not only that, it can alter a finished painting and generate numerous iterations, again, based on the textual prompts.

Developed by OpenAI, DALL-E was first introduced in 2021. The name is a portmanteau of Pixar’s WALL-E & Dali, from the Surrealist painter Salvador Dali. It took the developers at OpenAI to fine-tune their machine learning algorithms and come up with a system that can create original works of art in astute detail and resolution.