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Based on a written cue, a new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) models can make “creative” visuals on demand. Imagen, MidJourney and DALL-E 2 are just a few examples of how new technologies are changing the way creative content is created, with ramifications for copyright and intellectual property. While the output from these models is frequently impressive, it is difficult to determine exactly how they arrive at their conclusions. Researchers in the United States claimed last week that the DALL-E 2 model may…

OpenAI's mind-blowing text-to-image AI system called DALL-E2 appears to have created its own written language, according to Giannis Daras, a computer science PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin.DALL-E2 made a big splash earlier this year with its uncanny ability to turn text prompts into photorealistic or even artistically styled images — and now it sounds like it may be even more powerful and mysterious than we thought, capable of generating its own secret code.For instance, Daras wrote in a viral Twitter…

On June 15th, 1987, CompuServe introduced the GIF, a way to share images — or animated sequences of images — anywhere. The incredible portability of the late Steve Wilhite’s “graphics interchange format” made it the perfect canvas for viral memes. Now, a company called Looking Glass is trying to make holograms effortlessly portable, too. “Imagine we’re in a parallel universe and every movie ever shot was shot in color, but every human being was watching in black and white,” says Looking Glass co-founder and CEO…

New discovery could improve efficiency for storing renewable energy, making carbon-free fuels, and manufacturing sustainable materials.A team of energy researchers led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has developed a groundbreaking device that electronically converts one metal into behaving like another, allowing it to be used as a catalyst for speeding chemical reactions. The fabricated device, known as a “catalytic condenser,” is the first to demonstrate that alternative materials that are electronically…