Blistering heat waves have smashed temperature records around the globe this summer, scorching crops, knocking out power, fueling wildfires, buckling roads and runways, and killing hundreds in Europe alone. The sudden shift from an abstract threat to reality has many people wondering: is climate change unfolding faster than scientists had expected? Are these extreme events more extreme than studies had predicted they would be, given the levels of greenhouse gases now in the atmosphere? As it happens, those are two distinct questions, with different and nuanced answers. Our senior climate change editor James Temple explains the issues point-by-point in this explainer.

With minimal external inputs, OpenAI's GPT-3 text generating algorithm has authored an academic paper about itself, resulting in a study that is being peer-reviewed. When swedish researcher Almira Osmanovic Thunstrom commanded the text generator to write an academic thesis in 500 words about GPT-3, she "stood in awe" as the AI algorithm wrote a paper within two hours, complete with appropriate citations and contexts in places, she said in Scientific American. "As it started to generate text, I stood in awe. Here was novel content written in academic language, with well-grounded references cited in the right places and in relation to the right context," Dr Thunstrom noted.

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Those waiting for a chance to use DALL-E may soon get their turn. The powerful AI tool that generates images based on provided text will open in beta to one million users on the waitlist, OpenAI, the company that created DALL-E, announced today. Users enter a phrase or string of words into DALL-E, and the tool returns its own interpretation in the form of four images, ranging from whimsical to hyperreal. An updated DALL-E 2, launched in April, added the ability to edit existing images. A bowl of soup that is a portal to another dimension as digital art pic.twitter.com/vDbUpJoRWz

A DALL-E beta subscription won't break the bank: $15 buys you 115 credits, and one credit lets you submit a text prompt to the AI, which returns four images at a time. On top of this, users get 50 free credits in their first month and 15 free credits a month after that. Still, with users typically generating dozens of images at a time and keeping only the best, power users could soon burn through that quota. In the lead-up to this launch, OpenAI has been working with early adopters to troubleshoot the tool. The first wave of users has produced a steady stream of surreal and striking images: mash-ups of cute animals, pictures that imitate the style of real photographers with eerie accuracy, mood boards for restaurants and sneaker designs.

You no longer have to be part of a small club to try OpenAI's clever DALL-E image generator. The consortium has launched a beta that will make DALL-E available to 1 million people from a waitlist in the weeks ahead. If you get in, you'll receive 50 free image credits in your first month and 15 every following month. Each credit offers four pictures based on one original prompt, or three if you offer an edit or variation prompt. A bundle of 115 credits is available for $15 if the freebies aren't enough.

DALL-E2, the AI image tool, generated these images of a giraffe shopping in a grocery store. When the Silicon Valley research lab OpenAI unveiled DALL-E earlier this year, it wowed the internet. The tool is seen as one of the most advanced artificial intelligence systems for creating images in the world. Type a description, and DALL-E instantly produces professional-looking art or hyperrealistic photographs. "It's incredibly powerful," said Hany Farid, a digital forensics expert at the University of California, Berkeley.

Developers and mathematicians around the world have come together in an open source community to create the base algorithmic libraries that are used by pixelz.ai. We have taken the incredible foundation built by VQGAN CLIP and PYTTI to make it possible for the masses to use these algorithms to generate artistic styled imagery and videos! We have written a custom implementation of the popular DALL · E hyper-realistic algorithm called PXL · E to enable users to create realistic imagery from text. Their awesome work can be found on the DALL · E mini repo. As we develop and improve Pixelz AI we are adding in proprietary algorithms, models, training data and more almost daily.

This article is part of our coverage of the latest in AI research. Artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI made headlines again, this time with DALL-E 2, a machine learning model that can generate stunning images from text descriptions. DALL-E 2 builds on the success of its predecessor DALL-E and improves the quality and resolution of the output images thanks to advanced deep learning techniques. The announcement of DALL-E 2 was accompanied by a social media campaign by OpenAI's engineers and its CEO, Sam Altman, who shared wonderful photos created by the generative machine learning model on Twitter. DALL-E 2 shows how far the AI research community has come toward harnessing the power of deep learning and addressing some of its limits.

The "Content and Moderation" section of Midjourny's user guide instructs users to "not create images or use text prompts that are inherently disrespectful, aggressive, or otherwise abusive," and to "avoid making visually shocking or disturbing content" including adult content and gore. The rules also forbid content that "can be viewed as racist, homophobic, disturbing, or in some way derogatory to a community," including "offensive images of celebrities or public figures."