New AI tool that turns words into art enters testing phase

This photo illustration shows the DALL-E website on a cellphone, in front of an AI image created using DALL-E technology. The start-up OpenAI will open its artificial intelligence software DALL-E to a million people, so that they can create images, simply from verbal indications, and then use them to illustrate books, brochures or other productions. — AFP

SAN FRANCISCO: A million people eager to dabble with a new artificial intelligence tool that lets them create images simply by describing them with words will soon get their wish, its creators said on July 20.

Artificial intelligence research firm OpenAI is conducting a wide-scale beta test of DALL-E, a cutting-edge software that creates images from textual descriptions.