Artificial Intelligence is expanding human creativity – and CQU Digital Media

A CQUniversity Lecturer in Digital Media is delving into the stunning and strange world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Art, with a plan to transform digital media courses at CQU. The talented Brendan Murphy has been experimenting with DALL·E 2, which is an AI system that can create realistic images and art from text descriptions. Mr Murphy said the system works by analysing how humans have described images and taps into its memory to produce artwork. "DALL·E 2 is like an art Uber driver who will navigate you through a very complex space to get to the image you want," Mr Murphy said. "The key part of the system is its roadmap, built from AI analysis of a plethora of paired images and text descriptions. "I think the system initially set out to capture subjects, styles and genres, but because human written captions or descriptions accompany every image it analysed, the system also captured moods and emotions.