Point-E AI designs in 3D
OpenAI is not only developing AI systems that work with text or images. With Point-E AI you can also make 3D designs.
What is Point-E AI?
The technology behind Point-E AI can be compared to the technology used for ChatGPT and Dall-E. A so-called GAN, a generative adversetrial network.
With the difference that your text prompt does not so much generate a text, a program or an image. But a cloud of points representing a three-dimensional object.
Once this technology is up and running, the potential is quite large. You could fill a three-dimensional world with this, without having to hire thousands of designers. You can also design devices.
If this AI becomes really good, which probably requires a link with symbolic AI, you could link this to a 3D printer and let the AI design and build instruments itself. At the same time, this is dangerous.
What can you do with Point-E AI?
The quality of Point-E AI’s designs isn’t very impressive at this point. I did several experiments with short prompts, but the only recognizable object I got out was a coffee cup, or other simple everyday objects. A funny feature is to enter non existing letter combinations. Then you get completely unrecognizable, alien-like objects.
It’s probably a nice way to get new product ideas or ideas for shapes if you’re an artist or graphic designer. In other words, a brainstorming tool.
That is not to say that the product has no potential. You will probably have to feed Point-E with thousands of different labeled 3D designs, much like the other OpenAI projects have done, to take it to the next level.
Experiment yourself
The site HuggingFace has an online version of Point-E that you can experiment with for free. I used this for these examples.
