We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting

What's impressive about DALL-E 2 isn't just the art it generates. It's how it generates art. These aren't composites made out of existing internet images -- they're wholly new creations made through a complex A.I. process known as "diffusion," which starts with a random series of pixels and refines it repeatedly until it matches a given text description. And it's improving quickly -- DALL-E 2's images are four times as detailed as the images generated by the original DALL-E, which was introduced only last year. DALL-E 2 got a lot of attention when it was announced this year, and rightfully so.