Science and technology | Paint by numbers
How physics can improve image-generating AI
The laws governing electromagnetism and even the weak nuclear force could be worth mimicking
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TODAY’S BEST image-generating artificial-intelligence (AI) models are remarkable. Ask OpenAI’s DALL-E 3, or its counterparts Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, to draw a penguin sipping on a vodka martini on the French Riviera and they will do so with aplomb. Ask them to replicate it in the style of Rembrandt or Caravaggio and they will speedily oblige.
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