How To Create Digital Art in a Few Seconds

What Is DALL·E 2?

DALL-E 2 is a type of generative artificial intelligence (AI) that produces images from text. These generated images can look like drawings, paintings, and photos created by humans.

To use DALL-E 2, a user types in a sentence (a text prompt) describing a visual scene. Then the software creates a relevant graphic instantly.

For example, the tool generated four images for the prompt “3D render a diver meeting a sea turtle in the ocean.”

Fun fact: The name of DALL-E is a mix of Pixar’s WALL-E movie and artist Salvador Dali.

When its creators updated the way the software generates images, they changed its name to DALL-E 2.

How Does DALL-E 2 Work?

DALL-E 2’s trainers “showed” the software millions of images (all with associated meanings) from all over the web.

The art generator refers to this dataset when given a prompt and then uses statistical patterns to create its own.

DALL-E 2 relies on a computer program called a diffusion model.

A diffusion model analyzes images to learn the underlying patterns and features of each part:

Then it can use these pieces to recreate its own original, AI-generated images.

For example, DALL-E has analyzed thousands of images of cats and birds. Which is why it recognizes that cats have pointy ears and whiskers while birds have beaks and wings.

So if a user asks for AI art that includes a cat, DALL-E can replicate what it thinks a cat looks like.

For example, here are the results for the prompt, “A realistic photo of a cat...