Astral Codex Ten

DALL-E

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DALL-E

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DALL-E is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 30, 2022 and June 23, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “When I ask DALL-E to give me Reverend Thomas Bayes”; “DALL-E probably has a lot of stock images from stock image sites in its database”; “No mortal can truly understand the mind of DALL-E”. It most often appears alongside 1965, 1968 Summer Olympics, 2000 election.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: May 30, 2022
  • Last seen: June 23, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

A Guide To Asking Robots To Design Stained Glass Windows
May 30, 2022 · Original source
Enter DALL-E-2, the new art-generating AI. I’m still on the waitlist, but a friend who jumped in sooner than I did let me use their computer for a while and play around with it. This was my first introduction to the exciting world of DALL-E query framing - the surprisingly complicated relationship between what you ask the AI to do, and what it actually does. Seems on topic for this blog. So this is a combination investigation into how DALL-E thinks about queries, but also a practical guide to getting DALL-E to make good stained glass. Let’s get started.
Inline links: DALL-E-2
I’m going to go out of order here so I can demonstrate some principles from simplest to most complicated. Empiricism was the easiest window to generate. I wanted a picture of Charles Darwin studying finches. DALL-E was happy to provide.
Some of these are okay, but they don’t especially look like Bayes. I figured that maybe DALL-E doesn’t know who Bayes is. Is that true?
Your Book Review: Public Citizens
June 23, 2023 · Original source
Two sexy women attempting to seduce a young Ralph Nader. (Image by Dall-E) IV.