Artificial Intelligence Tool DALL-E Turns Ideas Into Paintings—But Is It Art?

English As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, we are becoming accustomed to the idea of turning on the lights with a voice command, adjusting the thermostat from our handsets and even riding in self-driving cars. But what if we told you that you could get a computer to create an impressive painting of a capybara sitting in a field at sunrise, simply by issuing a text command? DALL-E, an artificial intelligence-powered text-to-image generator developed by the San Francisco-based research laboratory OpenAI, can do just that. It can also render a hyperrealistic image of an armchair shaped like an avocado or a snail with a shell that resembles a harp. But is it art? That’s the question gripping the art world as it wrestles with the rise of images generated by Artificial Intelligence—AI for short. It’s also the question at the center of Artificial Imagination, a new exhibit now showing at the Minnesota Street Project’s bitform gallery in the Dogpatch. For Steven Sacks, owner and director of the media art-focused bitform gallery, artificially generated pieces can “absolutely” be art. He aims to prove that with Artificial Imagination, which is running now through the end of December. Ellie…
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