DALL-E, Make Me Another Picasso, Please

Since humans invented art, sometime in the Paleolithic era, they've produced lots of pictures--"The Starry Night," some memes, that photo of Donald Trump staring at the eclipse. What does it all add up to? A few years ago, a company called OpenAI fed a good deal of those images, along with text descriptions, into the neural network of an artificial intelligence named DALL-E. DALL-E was being trained to create original art of its own, in any style, depicting in uncanny detail almost anything desired, based on written prompts. But a mastery of the entire universe of human imagery makes for difficult choices.