AI magic: Turner painting of a 21st century Greenwich neighbourhood

A Turner painting of a 21st century London neighbourhood. There is a decided sense of the imaginative sweep of the 19th century painter's style. Image: Rashmee × DALL·E Human & AI

Using Dall-E 2, an AI image-generation tool, I created a Turner painting of an ordinary neighbourhood in Greenwich in the 21st century. Take a look. Pretty good, wouldn’t you say?

The oddest thing of all, of course, is to be turning out a Turner painting 173 years after the death of the painter. Dall-E 2 suggests the following caption: A Turner painting of a middle class neighbourhood in Greenwich, London in the 21st century

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Turner is known for the way he coloured imagined landscapes, painted more than 550 oils, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. I can see some of that style in these AI-scapes.

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