Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are taking the world by storm, seemingly making their way into every facet of life. AI, or machine learning, software is already being developed for a plethora of applications in science and engineering, including self-driving cars, traffic control, ecosystem monitoring, climate modelling and in medicine.
But another area of artificial intelligence research has been making waves internationally, particularly on social media, in recent months.
Emerging out of the buzz around Al-generated art has been a lot of discussion — and confusion — around whether or not the AI is “creative”, what this means for human artists, and copyright (who owns the image? Who made it?) and potential dangers (like biased output or Al-generated misinformation).
AI art has been around for decades, but exploded onto the scene with OpenAI’s DALL-E, an “intelligence augmentation” tool that scours billions of parameters to create images based on any text prompt you can think of. I would wager that a great many of us have already spent hours playing with the less powerful DALL-E mini, now called Craiyon.
Analysing billions of bits worth of data, Craiyon relates the
