So a lot of people ask have asked me lately: "Yo, Crypto Clown OG" where is your profile picture from? Is that an #NFT?

And I'll respond: "No, it's not an #NFT. It was generated by a new AI system called #dalle2 DALL·E 2 (openai.com/dall-e-2/) which can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.

#dalle2 is not like a Google image search where if I enter "Crypto Clown" it returns images that have been created by a person and uploaded to the internet.

#dalle2 has been trained using enormous amounts of images from the internet and the from this training the AI is able to generate a completely original image based on your description.

Here is what #dalle2 came up with when I entered "Crypto Clown". Some interesting results, but perhaps I need to be a bit more specific.

Let's try "Degenerate cryptocurrency clown". Wow, okay getting a bit closer to what I'm after. Let's get some variations on that first image please #dalle2?

Not bad, let's explore that one step deeper.

Now I'm starting to get a bit freaked out... let's back it up for a moment.

What about if we specify a different style?

Starting to get a little closer to what I'm after now, but still something missing.

Okay, the concept it very close to what I had in mind. What about if I tweak my description from "realistic" to "photo realistic"?

Welcome to the future everyone. We got robots making our cars and soon they'll be driving them for us as well - just ask @stevenmarkryan if you don't believe me.

Now we got computers doing graphic design for us. Until I got my hands on #Dalle2 I never would have believed this was a job that could be performed by AI, but now it seems like it was obviously inevitable.

Finally us humans have more time to do the important stuff like enjoying #defi on L1 meme blockchains like #dogechain and #kekchain.

You can read the unrolled version of this thread here: https://typefully.com/CryptoclownOg/j4SRs4J