Need an illustration of a wise cat meditating in the Himalayas searching for enlightenment but don’t have any oil paints? Want some art of robot dinosaurs versus monster trucks in a colosseum fight — in a pinch? You’re in luck.
On Wednesday, OpenAI unveiled the DALL·E 2 system, which can generate artistic images from a phrase. According to the OpenAI blog, the name DALL·E is “a portmanteau of the artist Salvador Dalí and Pixar’s WALL·E.” The recently-released second version expands upon the original DALL·E, which debuted in January 2021. It features higher-resolution images (1024 x 1024 pixels compared to 256 x 256 pixels) and lower-latency. Ultimately, OpenAI plans to offer the tool to artists and others.
