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A picture paints 1000 words

Feb14



A picture paints 1000 words…


Most of you reading blog posts and articles online have by now seen lots of AI-generated imagery — even if you often weren’t aware that it was.


One of the better-known tools for making this art is called DALL.E and it is now available for free online from Microsoft — just go to Bing and select CoPilot towards the top. This will take you to the same type of prompt that we’re already used to for #Chat GTP but as well as asking it to create outputs of words (poems, homework assignments, away-day agendas) or to summarise documents or emails, you can now use it to create pictures.


It’s a little temperamental so if it doesn’t do your bidding first time do persevere a bit.


For the demo I gave I requested the obligatory examples of cute animals using the following prompts:
1. Please draw me a picture of a happy dog.
2. Please give it a Dutch theme.
3. Please make it more like a digital photo.
and for feline/canine balance
4. Please make a steampunk image of a bad-arse group of cats [x2]


I have only one professional use case so far — I had written a PowerPoint with a lot of images “from the web”. The night before my presentation the conference organiser said they would like to share the presentation afterwards on their website. I didn’t have the rights to several of the images and others had no licence to purchase. I therefore used the GenAI tool to create similar images that fitted the themes of my slides but which I could then use in a publicly-shareable presentation.


What other useful professional use-cases have people seen?


(Oh, and yes, I’m expecting some questions/thoughts (trolling even?) on the question of the appropriateness of using images trained on other people’s artwork and photos. And this is a critically important topic, but as things currently stand, what most GenAI tools produce can be freely used by the “creator” so let’s have that debate at a separate time.

By Paolo Cuomo

Keywords: AI, Generative AI, Innovation

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