Bing

Yesterday I played with Bing Chat, which is Microsoft’s AI engine and I noticed that I could play with generating images. I spent quite a bit of time generating a multitude of images, in part for fun, but also to get a grasp of the limitations of the opportunity presented by software like AI.

Faces

If you ask Dall-E via Bing Chat to generate a face then it can. It wanted to generate the face of a woman with curly hair so I did, and the image looks realistic. I then asked it to draw the face of a tired man and it did. It’s when I asked Dall-E to draw a woman cyclist exploring the Dolomites that I saw that faces are a mess. It’s fine with generating human faces, in isolation, but if you ask for a landscape, and a human with a face then the face is wrong. This is both great, and a shame. It’s great because it means that we still need to photograph real people doing real things, but it’s bad because if all we need is a face then AI is ready to provide us with some.