This week at the Surface event, Panos Panay, Microsoft’s chief product officer, announced Microsoft Designera new graphic design program within the company’s 365 productivity suite, based on artificial intelligence (AI) DALL-E.
Exactly, according to the report published on the website of Engadget, the application has the integration of DALL-E 2which allows you to use the familiar image generator to add supporting art to your social media posts, invitations, and documents.
As many connoisseurs of AI platforms know, DALL-E 2 is capable of rendering images in multiple styles, including photorealistic, painting, and emoji. You can also manipulate and rearrange objects in your images without explicit instructions from a human.
It was called DALL-E to combine the initial of the surname of the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí with the name of WALL-E, the cute robot from the Disney-Pixar family film.
Expectations by Microsoft Designer
In the future, Microsoft plans to bring DALL-E support to Bing and Edge “so you can use your words not just to search but also to create,” so it sounds like a long-term partnership.
The announcement comes just two weeks after OpenAI removed the waiting list that existed for DALL-E, making the tool more accessible.
It is unclear if the AI-generated images are fair use or taken. Services like Getty Images have banned the technology in response to copyright concerns. For its part, Microsoft has occasionally tried new artificial intelligence technologies before backing down, as was the case with its Tay chat bot.
We’ll see how this combination between Microsoft and OpenAI turns out, but without a doubt Microsoft Designer looks like a promising tool.