The Hague: At first glance it seems to be just a modern take on Johannes Vermeer's masterpiece "Girl with a Pearl Earring". But look more closely and things get a little strange. Firstly, there are two glowing earrings in the image hanging in the Mauritshuis museum in the Dutch city of The Hague. That's because the work -- one of several fan recreations replacing the 1665 original while it's on loan for a huge Vermeer show at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum -- was made using artificial intelligence (AI). Its presence has sparked a fierce debate, with questions over whether it belongs in the hallowed halls of the Mauritshuis -- and whether it should be classed as art at all.

Through the looking glass: Since being unveiled by OpenAI in early 2021, DALL-E has been turning heads with its ultra-realistic AI image creations. From jaw-dropping to just downright weird, the text-to-image AI system has wowed the internet. Art lovers can now explore a world outside the confines of a frame. DALL-E's new Outpainting feature can expand a picture beyond its original border. OpenAI has introduced a new tool for DALL-E, enabling it to imagine a world beyond the confines of a frame.

An AI artist can now provide a glimpse of what the background settings of famous paintings and photos may have looked like. OpenAI, a San Francisco-based company, has created a new tool called'Outpainting' for its text-to-image AI system, DALL-E. Outpainting allows the system to imagine what's outside the frame of famous paintings such as Girl with The Pearl Earring, Mona Lisa and Dogs Playing Poker. As users have shown, it can do this with any kind of image, such as the man on the Quaker Oats logo and the cover of the Beatles album'Abbey Road'. DALL-E relies on artificial neural networks (ANNs), which simulate the way the brain works in order to learn and create an image from text.