This week, OpenAI granted users of its image-generating AI system, DALL-E 2, the right to use their generations for commercial projects, like illustrations for children's books and art for newsletters. DALL-E 2 "trained" on approximately 650 million image-text pairs scraped from the internet, learning from that dataset the relationships between images and the words used to describe them. But while OpenAI filtered out images for specific content (e.g. As the AI community creates open source implementations of DALL-E 2 and its predecessor, DALL-E, both free and paid services are launching atop models trained on less-carefully filtered datasets. When contacted for comment, the Pixelz.ai

This week, OpenAI granted users of its image-generating AI system, DALL-E 2, the right to use their generations for commercial projects, like illustrations for children's books and art for newsletters. DALL-E 2 "trained" on approximately 650 million image-text pairs scraped from the Internet, learning from that data set the relationships between images and the words used to describe them. But while OpenAI filtered out images for specific content (e.g. As the AI community creates open source implementations of DALL-E 2 and its predecessor, DALL-E, both free and paid services are launching atop models trained on less-carefully-filtered data sets. When contacted for comment, the Pixelz.ai

Ever wondered what Disney Princesses would look like in real life according to artificial intelligence (AI)? Well, wonder no more, as a recent TikTok video has gone viral for using AI on some of the most popular animated Disney Princesses to imagine their live-action counterparts. The TikTok video, which you can see below, was uploaded by Tony Aubé, a Silicon Valley designer who previously worked at Google AI. The 20-second clip shows images of Frozen's Elsa, Aladdin's Jasmine, The Little Mermaid's Ariel, and the titular Moana against their respective digitally reimagined AI designs, which Aubé was able to make with the help of video reenactment technology. Though not a Disney character, the video also featured an AI reimagining of Princess Fiona from the DreamWorks franchise, Shrek.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere in our daily lives – search engines, social media, intelligent personal assistants such as Siri – and today's schoolchildren are a generation who will grow up with these AI technologies. I have a one year old daughter; it is distinctly possible that she does not need to learn how to drive when she grows up because self-driving vehicles will be the norm. As a computer scientist who works in a medical research institute, I witness firsthand how AI is transforming the way we screen our three-billion-character genome to discover disease-causing mutations, and detect cardiovascular risks by analysing data from wearable fitness trackers. Like it or not, AI will be an integral part of our children's future. The term AI may sound scary, possibly due to association with killer robots in science fiction.

Not even Disney princesses can find a decent match on dating apps. In the comics below, which originally appeared on College Humor, illustrator Paul Westover shows us what it would look like if Disney princesses had met their princes online. Let's just say they'd be better off doing happily ever after alone.