Since the research lab OpenAI debuted the latest version of DALL-E in April, the AI has dazzled the public, attracting digital artists, graphic designers, early adopters, and anyone in search of online distraction. The ability to create original, sometimes accurate, and occasionally inspired images from any spur-of-the-moment phrase, like a conversational Photoshop, has startled even jaded internet users with how quickly AI has progressed.

Five months later, 1.5 million users are generating 2 million images a day. On Wednesday, OpenAI said it removed its waitlist for DALL-E, giving anyone immediate access.

The introduction of DALL-E has triggered an explosion of text-to-image generators. Google and Meta quickly revealed that they had each been developing similar systems, but said their models weren't ready for the public. Rival start-ups soon went public, including Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, which created the image that sparked controversy in August when it won an art competition at the Colorado State Fair.

Seemingly superficial generations like an showed that OpenAI had built a system that is able to apply the characteristics of an avocado to the form factor and the function of a chair, Murati said.

The avocado-chair image could be key to building AGI that understands the world the same way humans do. Whether the system sees an avocado, hears the word or reads the word the concept that gets triggered should be exactly the same, she said. Since DALL-E's outputs are in images, OpenAI can view how the system represents concepts.

To give it a try yourself, see:
DALL·E NowAvailable in Beta(https://openai.com/blog/dall-e-now-available-in-beta/)

To read the complete articles, see:
DALL-E image generator is now open to everyone(https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/openai-image-generator-dall-e-now-available-without-waitlist/)
AI can now create any image in seconds, bringing wonder and danger(https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/artificial-intelligence-images-dall-e/)

Bonus robot article - Maillardet's automaton:
This Creepy Robot Just Showed Up at the Franklin Institute One Day(https://www.thevintagenews.com/2022/09/20/maillardet-automaton/)