AI illustrator draws imaginative pictures to go with text captions

A neural network uses text captions to create outlandish images – such as armchairs in the shape of avocados – demonstrating it understands how language shapes visual culture. OpenAI, an artificial intelligence company that recently partnered with Microsoft, developed the neural network, which it calls DALL-E. It is a version of the company's GPT-3 language model that can create expansive written works based on short text prompts, but DALL-E produces images instead. "The world isn't just text," says Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI. "Humans don't just talk: we also see. A lot of important context comes from looking."