What Does An AI Think of 3D Printing?
We asked the artistic AI, DALL-E mini, to see what it thinks of 3D printing. The results are... weird.
Some trends are too cool to let pass us by, and DALL-E mini is one of them. Beloved AI of the moment, DALL-E mini is an image generation tool that takes natural language text prompts (in other words, you tell it what to create) and spits out a mix of spot-on, abstract, and downright terrifying images to suit your request.
While not connected to DALL-E 2, a research project by OpenAI that does similar things but is not publicly accessible, DALL-E mini has captured the imaginations of the internet, becoming prime fodder for a quick laugh on Twitter.
We’ve put some 3D printing-flavored prompts to DALL-E mini to see how it views the topic.
Starting with something simple, here’s what it gave us.
“3D printed boat of the future”
“Benchy3D fever dream”
“Cats sabotaging a 3D printer”
“Original Prusa i3 MK4 3D printer”
The tool is capable of interpreting more complex queries, though.
“3D printer printing a boat made of spaghetti”
“A spool of filament in a cornfield at sunset in the style of Vincent van Gogh”
But we prefer the simpler things.
“Dog operating a 3D printer in space”
So there we have it. Some silly fun using a tool that only wants to learn. If you want to try it out, DALL-E mini is over on the Hugging Face website. Full credit to its creator, Boris Dayma.
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