Dall-E Mini

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So Dall-E Mini is doing the Internet rounds

Amongst the rising background hum of AI Sentience in the hype news cycle

I'm sure you know

Here's somebody hosting an instance of it

So what is it?

It is a type of machine learning algorithm called a neural network. This one has been trained on visual data from the Internet. It takes a textual input and creates a visual output influenced by the aggregate processing of it's training data

You type in some words, you get 9 generated images

Two nights ago during a pain-induced extension of insomnia, I had the desire to listen to The Horn Track by The Egyptian Empire

In that moment, my darling entered the chat and I thought it would be funny to create a hamburger called 'The Egyptian Empire'

Imagine walking into Burger Store and seeing The Egyptian Empire on the menu

I'd buy that without even reading the ingredients. Bring it on

Such a burger, if realised, would need to be large in scale and pyramidal in shape

And then it really hit me: I could use Dall-E Mini to visually manifest this idea

So here I am, iteratively working toward the image in my mind's eye, cajoling this complex domain-specific statistical model into heaving forth a hamburger in the shape of a pyramid:

Top left is definitely a pyramid eating a hamburger

Pyramids of burgers

And here we have a winner folks!
The Egyptian Empire:

Of the lot, this is the one closest to the idea

Here's a couple more, unrelated ideas I wanted to see on the day:

Which one's your favourite?

Share your generated images below. Mention my name in your posts. Flex your imagination. Just don't get caught up in the AI mystique

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