Creative artificial intelligence has crossed a major threshold. What happens next?

In today’s Big Story podcast, last week, the creative AI DALL-E opened to everyone wanting to use it.

The program, which returns images based on text prompts provided by the user, has created mesmerizing tableaus from the gorgeous to the obscene, and it gets better all the time. But is this art? If not, why not?

Creative AI is simply the most visible aspect of an AI revolution that has taken major steps over the past couple of years. But how does it work? What else can it be used for and… should we be concerned?

Stephen Marche, is a writer and cultural critic, and has reported on Creative AI for The New Yorker and The Atlantic. He joined The Big Story to share his findings.

“We don’t really know what it is going to become, but it can generate images from text, and the consequences of that will be really amazing,” said Marche.

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