Today's episode details three big releases from OpenAI: (1) DALL-E 3 text-to-image model, which "exactly" adheres to your prompt. (2) Image-to-text chat. (3) Real-time web search integrated into ChatGPT (which seems to lag behind Google's Bard).

So, first, DALL-E 3 text-to-image generation:
• Appears to generate images that are on par with Midjourney V5, the current state-of-the-art.
• The big difference is that apparently DALL-E 3 will actually generate images that adhere “exactly” to the text you provide.
• In contrast, the incumbent models in the state of the art typically ignore words or key parts of the description even though the quality is typically stunning.
• This adherence to prompts extends even to language that you’d like to include in the image, which is mega.
• Watch today's YouTube version for examples of all the above.

In addition, using Midjourney is a really bizarre user experience because it's done through Discord where you provide prompts and get results alongside dozens of other people at the same time. DALL-E 3, in contrast, will be within the slick ChatGPT Plus environment, which could completely get rid of the need to develop text-to-image prompt-engineering expertise in order to get great results. Instead, you can simply have an iterative back-and-forth conversation with ChatGPT to produce the image of your dreams.

Next up is image-to-text chat in ChatGPT Plus:
• We've known this was coming for a while.
• Works stunningly well in the test I've done so far.
• Today's YouTube version also shows an example of this.

Finally, real-time web search with Bing is now integrated into ChatGPT Plus:
• In my personal (anecdotal tests), this lagged behind Google's Bard.
• Bard is also free, so if real-time web search is what you're after, there doesn't seem to be a reason to pay for ChatGPT Plus. That said, for state-of-the-art general chat plus now image generation and text-to-image chat (per the above), ChatGPT Plus is well worth the price tag.

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