When AI gets creative: Meet Dall-E, the text-to-image generator

A Dall-E AI-generated image based on the text prompt ‘an armchair in the shape of an avocado’. — AFP Relaxnews

Dall-E – so-called in homage to Salvador Dalí and Wall-E – is an artificial intelligence program from the American research lab, OpenAI, co-founded by Elon Musk. The program has been trained to generate an image from a text caption.

This neural network is capable of translating absurd concepts and of conceiving objects that don't exist. It could prove a major boon for the future of design, potentially exceeding the limits of our imagination.