Not a month goes by without us hearing from a new group of workers who feel threatened by the artificial intelligence. OpenAI’s GPT-3 attempted against the editors of a lifetime —we took the opportunity to send a greeting to OpenAI from here—. GitHub Copilot put software developers on the ropes. Y Dall-Ealso owned by OpenAI, marked the brushstrokes of what could be the future of generating images from text. The first version of this AI was already amazing, but the second generation of this tool has improved so much that many experts believe that Dall-E 2 will do a disservice to painters, graphic designers and photographers. The youtuber Marques Brownlee has decided test this AI with a real experiment which is as exciting as it is fun.
The DALL-E Challenge: Designer vs. Machine
The channel The Studio It’s been a testing ground for a few months now. Marques Brownleea youtuber At this point, it hardly needs an introduction. This new channel is more focused on the Brownlee team, it has a much more fun tone and the videos they upload are usually very entertaining.
On this occasion, our dear Marques Brownlee tested its own graphic designer, Tim McMahonmeasuring it in three rounds against Dall-E 2. The confrontation would be very simple: Marques would think of 3 issues and deliver them to both contenders. Tim would have unlimited time to create the images, while Dall-E 2 would take its typical 10 seconds. Later, Brownlee would choose the best image generated by AI —Dall-E 2 generates several simultaneously— and the whole team would vote for the best.
Image: The Studio
In the first assaultthe theme was ‘A deer covered in feathers‘. Tim McMahon opted for the photomontage, and although the result of the AI was quite decent, there was unanimity in the studio, as everyone stayed with the designer’s version.
Image: The Studio
The same would not happen in second imagewhose input it was ‘A female robot protecting a wall of computers‘. Tim’s design wasn’t bad, but everyone was left with the result of Dall-E 2. The subconscious betrayed McMahon, who used a rather generic robot thinking that the stock images he had found on the Internet were “too girly”. ». Dall-E didn’t think twice, and his result was much closer to the prompt Brownlee initial.
Image: The Studio
Finally, the third round had as title ‘A Mona Lisa-style painting with a goat taking a photo with an iPad‘. Dall-E 2 defended very well, but the assault was again for the flesh and blood contender. And luckily, because we would not have liked to see a dismissal live, because it would have broken the aura of good vibes that was breathed in the video.
Will AI kill the average worker?
Not necessarily. The generative models They have come to stay, we have no doubt. But without proper communication, artificial intelligence can do practically nothing.
Just as many programmers cursed Copilot and now love it, because they can program more comfortably thanks to said AI, artists and writers we can also take advantage of tools such as OpenAIorganizing and improving our work in a more intelligent way hand in hand with these new technological advances.
