We need to talk about how good AI is getting

For the past few days, I've been playing around with DALL-E 2, an app developed by the San Francisco company OpenAI that turns text descriptions into hyper-realistic images. OpenAI invited me to test DALL-E 2 (the name is a play on Pixar's WALL-E and artist Salvador Dalí) during its beta period, and I quickly got obsessed. I spent hours thinking up weird, funny and abstract prompts to feed the AI -- "a 3D rendering of a suburban home shaped like a croissant," "an 1850s daguerreotype portrait of Kermit the Frog," "a charcoal sketch of two penguins drinking wine in a Parisian bistro." This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software. Please add japantimes.co.jp and piano.io to your list of allowed sites.