The Physics Principle That Inspired Modern AI Art | WIRED

Diffusion models generate incredible images by learning to reverse the process that, among other things, causes ink to spread through water.

Save this story Save this story Ask DALL·E 2, an image generation system created by OpenAI, to paint a picture of “goldfish slurping Coca-Cola on a beach,” and it will spit out surreal images of exactly that. The program would have encountered images of beaches, goldfish, and Coca-Cola during training, but it’s highly unlikely it would have seen one in which all three came together. Yet DALL·E 2 can assemble the concepts into something that might have made Dalí proud. Original story reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine , an editorially independent publication of the Simons Foundation

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