Google's Imagen AI produces photorealistic images from natural text with frightening fidelity

'A blue jay standing on a large basket of rainbow macarons.' Credit: Google About a month after OpenAI announced DALL-E 2, its latest AI system to create images from text, Google has continued the AI "space race" with its own text-to-image diffusion model, Imagen. Google's results are extremely, perhaps even scarily, impressive. Using a standard measure, FID, Google Imagen outpaces Open AI's DALL-E 2 with a score of 7.27 using the COCO dataset. Despite not being trained using COCO, Imagen still ...