That photo above? I didn’t take it while writing this article in a coffee shop. I created it sitting at my home office desk, using Microsoft’s new AI image generator, MAI-Image-1.
In AI vocabulary, the new tool is referred to as a “text-to-image model,” meaning you write a prompt, and then the AI tool delivers an image. The prompt I used for this image was, “Create a picture of two people talking and having coffee at a coffee shop.”
But I could easily have used the image below instead, since the tool spat…
