It’s not the perfect analogy, but now that I have your attention, read on to understand why I think this is one of the most significant pieces of AI art. Disclaimer: I own pieces from the collection.The short versionalignDRAW, a 2015 paper by Elman Masimov, is regarded as the first text-to-image model. The author, in collaboration with fellowship, created an NFT collection of the outputs from the model. These are the outputs from the first time we taught machines to conjure images just by des...

It’s not the perfect analogy, but now that I have your attention, read on to understand why I think this is one of the most significant pieces of AI art. Disclaimer: I own pieces from the collection.The short versionalignDRAW, a 2015 paper by Elman Masimov, is regarded as the first text-to-image model. The author, in collaboration with fellowship, created an NFT collection of the outputs from the model. These are the outputs from the first time we taught machines to conjure images just by des...