Turning Words into Pictures with Google’s Text-to-Image AI

Generating visuals straight from text is an intriguing new capability showcased by Google’s text-to-image machine learning models. In this post, I’ll explore how this AI works and its creative potential.

What is Text-to-Image AI?

Text-to-image is a generative AI technique that creates original images matching text descriptions. Some examples:

• “A purple cat wearing sunglasses” -> generates that image
• “A plate of pancakes with blueberries and syrup” -> creates the described scene

The AI tries to translate the text into a realistic visual representation. Under the hood are deep neural networks trained on vast image datasets.

Google and other tech companies have recently unveiled text-to-image models that demonstrate impressive results, forecasting this as an impactful AI application.

How Does Text-to-Image Generation Work?