AI made it possible to create a picture of almost anything in 2022

We asked DALL-E 2 to generate'An oil painting of a tabby cat reading New Scientist magazine on the train' Artificial intelligence continued to make great strides in a variety of fields in 2022, but perhaps one of the biggest shocks was the emergence of AI models that can generate photorealistic images from a simple text description. "It was totally unexpected, I would say, at the end of 2021. Unexpectedly mind-blowing," says Thomas Wolf, co-founder of Hugging Face, a website that allows people to share AI code and data sets.