Picture Limitless Creativity at Your Fingertips

Picture Lee Unkrich, one of Pixar's most distinguished animators, as a seventh grader. Some of the magic wears off, however, when Lee learns that the image had not appeared simply by asking for "a picture of a train." Instead, it had to be painstakingly coded and rendered--by hard-working humans. Now picture Lee 43 years later, stumbling onto DALL-E, an artificial intelligence that generates original works of art based on human-supplied prompts that can literally be as simple as "a picture of a train." As he types in words to create image after image, the wow is back.