Dataflow matrix machines (by Anhinga anhinga)

"Preliminary results indicate that GPT-4 fine-tuning requires more work to achieve meaningful improvements over the base model compared to the substantial gains realized with GPT-3.5 fine-tuning."

GPT-4 in ChatGPT+ can now read and analyze images, one can upload an image and discuss it with GPT-4. 

GPT-4 in ChatGPT+ can also generate text prompts and render images via DALL-E 3.

What is missing is the ability to load an image and modify it with DALL-E 3 (or to load the image and use it as an inspiration for image generation by DALL-E 3).

1) So, on one hand, I want to ask a question:

Do people here have experience with loading an image and modifying it using an AI system (or with loading an image and using it as an inspiration for an AI system)? Any recommendations?

2) On the other hand, there are two possible workarounds.

2a) One can use an ASCII art inside GPT-4 to inspire images rendered by DALL-E 3 (it works, but I was not able to obtain the results I would like so far).

2b) One can analyze an image and obtain an image description in one mode of GPT-4 in ChatGPT+, and then open another session and use that description in the prompt to guide DALL-E 3.

Some of the results obtained via method 2b) are quite interesting. I am going to post related images and dialogs as a series of comments.

Update: In November, the ability to read and create images within one session has been added (and, generally speaking, all functionality which has been separated into different type of sessions is now available from a single session, you should be able to ask the system for anything, be it "search the web", or "generate and execute code", or "upload this data, and then generate code to analyze this data, and run it"; these used to require starting different types of sessions, but now all this is available together).