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

Jun 16, 2022

An AI-generated painting of a fox sitting in a field at sunrise in the style of Claude Monet.

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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