[thom]

I don't mean this to sound overly negative, because I absolutely think DALL-E is a killer app amongst recent AI advances. But the thing that made DALL-E astonishing is that it was... good. While DALL-E Mini mimics a lot of the technical advances and you can kind of see what it's getting at with its outputs, they're still mostly garbage. Very clever garbage! But they lack the emotional impact that - woah! - this is doing something superhuman.

Obviously the hope is that somehow this and future advances can be democratised. It was funny that Asimov's The Last Question has been posted here a couple of times recently because it makes such a big thing about world-sized computers and how advanced minicomputers would be. It's easy to read and scoff at the naivety... before realising we could easily be heading back in that direction for many impactful future technologies.

[dr_zoidberg]

What makes DALLE Mini great is that we can all sit down and play with it, with no "oh this thing might destroy humanity" warning. A warning that most people who have worked seriously on different areas of AI find annoying for different reasons, but mainly it feels like a marketing gimmick to draw attention.

I have lots of friends who aren't related to the tech field having lots of fun playing with DALLE Mini, even though the results are terribly looking -- if they sort of resemble the prompt (and many times they do), they are ecstatic that the machine made a weird doodle about something ridiculous.

[fortran77]

> What makes DALLE Mini great is that we can all sit down and play with it, with no "oh this thing might destroy humanity" warning

It seems like the DALL-E creators are mostly worried about the (possibly justified!) fear that people will use it to make racist or other offensive imagery, and it would bring very bad PR to the team.