A.I. Turns Its Artistry to Creating New Human Proteins - The New York Times

"One of the most powerful things about this technology is that, like DALL-E, it does what you tell it to do," said Nate Bennett, one of the researchers working in the University of Washington lab. "From a single prompt, it can generate an endless number of designs." To generate images, DALL-E relies on what artificial intelligence researchers call a neural network, a mathematical system loosely modeled on the network of neurons in the brain. This is the same technology that recognizes the commands you bark into your smartphone, enables self-driving cars to identify (and avoid) pedestrians and translates languages on services like Skype. A neural network learns skills by analyzing vast amounts of digital data.