Science – After being expelled from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid just before graduation in 1926 for insulting the examination panel, 22-yearold Salvador Dalí headed for Paris. This change of location proved transformative, both for the young artist and for art itself. In France, Dalí went from imitating his masters to developing his own distinctive style. Merging imagery inspired by Sigmund Freud’s interpretations of erotic dreams with surreal hallucinations, Dalí embraced association and automaticity as his creative method. This shift led to an exuberant production of canvases and other artifacts, an energetic pace that he maintained until his death in 1989. It is therefore highly apt that when, in 2021, OpenAI launched its deep learning model capable of generating novel images from natural-language descriptions, it called the program “DALL-E.” – read more