Give this AI a few words of description and it produces a stunning image – but is it art?

DALL-E 2 is a new neural network algorithm that creates a picture from a short phrase or sentence. Image: OpenAI
Aaron Hertzmann
Affiliate Faculty of Computer Science, University of Washington

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