AI & Robotics

Back in 2019, Princeton University’s Arvind Narayanan, a professor of computer science and expert on algorithmic fairness, AI and privacy, shared a set of slides on Twitter called “AI Snake Oil.” The presentation, which claimed that “much of what’s being sold as ‘AI’ today is snake oil. It does not and cannot work,” quickly went viral. Narayanan, who was recently named director…

Midjourney, one of the startups at the bleeding edge of generative AI imagery, debuted a generative infill feature that users have already dubbed a potential game-changer, putting it in more direct competition with Adobe Photoshop’s Generative Fill. An increasingly popular use of AI-powered image generation tools is to add entirely new elements within preexisting images, elements that fit the…

VMware and Nvidia today extended their decade-long strategic collaboration to announce a new fully-integrated solution focused on generative AI training and deployment. Dubbed VMware Private AI Foundation with Nvidia, the offering is a single-stack product that provides enterprises with everything they need — from software to computing capacity — to fine-tune large language models and run…