New AI technology being developed would enable creating digital images by users simply by describing what they want to see. Supported by funding from Microsoft, the OpenAI artificial intelligence lab is working on technology that blends language and images to electronically generate various things in images. It’s a neural network that learns skills by analyzing large amounts of data and pinpointing patterns in thousands of pictures or other images. Such systems could help companies improve search engines, digital assistants and other common technologies, and also automate new tasks for graphic artists, programmers and other professionals. But experts like Fulton Schools Professor Subbarao Kambhampati, a computer scientist, warn of the potential to use such systems for deceptive activities, such as proliferating deep fake images or generating and spreading extensive disinformation on the internet. (Access to the full content of The New York Times is accessible only to subscribers.)