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Just over seven years ago, I created a generative work called ‘Machine Imagined Art<\/a>‘, based on the then recently released data set from The Tate<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The system uses the ontology from the Tate data, and creates descriptions of non-existent artworks. Due to combinatorial explosion, there are 88 nonillion possible artworks hiding inside the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s always been one of my favourite works, and a few years ago I turned it into a twitterbot<\/a>, which imagines a new artwork every six hours. At that rate, I calculated that the Universe will reach the heat-death before it’s posted them all…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artworks, of course, do not exist. Despite my exhortations for someone to try and make one, they exist only in the imagination of the person reading them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OpenAI<\/a> recently previewed a new model, called DALL-E<\/a>, trained on millions of image\/description pairs – resulting in a network which can produce images from text descriptions. The results are fascinating, this<\/a> is an excellent overview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whilst they did not release all the code, they did release CLIP<\/a>, a subsection of the system which works as an ‘image critic’ – when proffered an image and a description, it gives a score of how well it matches. Ryan Murdock<\/a> took this critic and used it as a guiding signal for navigating BigGAN (a publicly released model trained on 1000s of images) and produced the BigSleep<\/a> system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, I can finally see the machine interpretation of my machine imagined art descriptions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To seed the system, I used the final line of the description as a prompt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amazingly, this image is indeed skull-like, and has the water texture of a river, and what appears to be some German text emerging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I love this one, it has a real Max Ernst<\/a> vibe, and clearly contains a ‘woman of hope’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I can see classical ruins, a sunset and what appears to be a shoe in the middle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is amazing, it has the ‘pearls of sensual pleasure’, a rainbow of colours, and a wheel-like object at the epicentre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While the bow and arrow are merely hinted at, that looks like the form of a baby, and even some sort of attempt to create the text ‘Eros’ – I particularly like the floating ‘S’ on the right, which seems to be made of flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What next?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This very much feels like a significant advance in #aiart \/ #mediasynthesis (or whatever its called this week). The ability to cross modalities between images and text opens up some fascinating possibilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here I am able to complete the journey from a machine imagined<\/em> art to machine created<\/em> art that I began seven years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is just the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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