Yet. These models have been out for only a matter of months. Just last year the state of the art was DALL-e v1, which is a toy in comparison[0] to DALL-e 2/imagen/SD.
Making predictions is perilous but it would be surprising to me if computers did not have fully super-human artistic ability in the next 5 years.
Relationships between things is complicated. Someone resting their face on a fence is going to have a huge number of effects on the deformations of the face, especially the eyes and hair depending on how they are resting. It’s not enough for AI to have seen enough pictures of faces on fences to be able to apply that in an image. It needs to understand what pressure and gravity is doing to the underlying structures. That’s how human artists study at least. It’s why they can take that lesson and apply it to learnings about how skin behaves depending on the age of a person. They aren’t copying. They are solving problems by thinking about muscles underneath and how they change depending on any number of factors.
None of this even touches on lighting and colours.
If there’s one prediction of the future I’m willing to make, it’s that until research progresses on teaching computers to apply actual knowledge, AI within the creative space will remain assistive instead of replacing.
The difference between AI art and actual human art is the level of intention one can detect in it. When I look at human art I absolutely marvel at the cleverness of the artist to convey something that still looks like what I was imagining even when I look closer at it.
With AI art I look closer and realize that the blob presents more confusion the closer I look at it.
I’ve been telling anyone who will listen that AI art isn’t stealing much lunch when it comes to professional art. But it may very well be a powerful tool to artists to speed up their workflows and artists who refuse to use the tool stand a chance at being left behind the same way some artists got left behind in the illustration industry world once digital tools showed up.