123: AI Art Gallery

Here are ten of my original drawings.

Directly next to them are their corresponding machine-generated variations, after I fed them into an AI image generation tool (DALLβ€’E 2).


Can you tell which are human-made?


1/ Falling Cats

From Cats and Toast



2/ Battlestar Galactica

From Battlestar Galactica



3/ A Knight

From Drawing + Writing



4/ Inbox

From MBA - Intro



5/ Meditation

From Past-Future-Present



6/ Easel

From Art for Amateurs



7/ Low-poly Mountains

From Ambition vs. Curiosity



8/ Camels

From Negotiation - Part I



9/ Subway Scene

From Subway Comic



10/ Turtle

From New Year





Quick thoughts

The underlying technology here is incredibly powerful. And I've barely even scratched the surface re: DALL-E's natural language input capabilities (generating images purely from text descriptions). These emerging AI design tools will only get better, fast.

And yet, a part of me feels trepidation.

According to basically every sci-fi TV show, we should proceed carefully.

I am simultaneously excited, concerned, and curious as to how this will shake out.




What do you think?







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