DALL.E 2 Digital Art from OpenAI

A new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.

Sampath Maddula

6/22/20222 min read

OpenAI If you haven’t heard already is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Their main goal is to advance digital intelligence to benefit humanity. This sounds very cool and it is from one of the serial disruptors like Elon Musk's pet project. OpenAI is supported and funded by tech giants from Microsoft to Amazon and a lot more individuals and companies pledged huge funding to make these systems.

If you want to find more on OpenAI following links can help you on this:

Twitter at @OpenAI

Website at https://openai.com/

A year and a half ago, OpenAI introduced DALL·E. One year later, they introduced DALL·E 2, which generates more realistic images with greater resolution; below you can see the difference between the two systems.

DALL.E 2 can generate images faster and with better caption matching and photorealism.

All looks great, you must be wondering when can I get hold of this to play and generate some cool digital images? Well at the moment it's only available for a selected group of users (some YouTubers are included in that group). This makes sense to understand the real-world usage patterns and system behaviours.

If you want to join the waiting list to preview this system, like me, follow the link https://labs.openai.com/waitlist


Lets look at some of the cool images that came out from this system. For example when you type “An astronaut riding a horse in a photorealistic style”, which is a natural language question, DALL.E 2 generates the following images:

Lets look at some of the cool images that came out from this system. For example when you type “An astronaut riding a horse in a photorealistic style”, which is a natural language question, DALL.E 2 generates the following images:

DALL.E 2 restricts the generation of violent, hateful or adult images and comes with policies as well as both automated and human monitoring systems. This is to curb misuse of the system which is very important and necessary.

I am very excited about this as I know my next painting project is based on one of these cool images generated by DALL.E 2.

Let me know your thoughts and what you want to build with OpenAI. There are several APIs and example applications you will find in the OpenAI website.