Artists are never on thinner ice or more sublimely sure of their footing than when they’re hunting for a view of the infinite. The Drawing Center’s expansive show Of Mythic Worlds in Manhattan takes as its topic what its curator Olivia Shao calls the “universal pursuit to understand that which is outside of our objective, […]
Published March 21, 2023 10:15 p.m. ET Original art (left), plagiarized art created by an AI model (center), and the AI-generated image after cloaking the original art (right). (Images courtesy SAND Lab / Art by Karla Ortiz) With the power of AI, it’s now possible to replicate distinctive art styles in minutes — an innovation […]
March 21 (Reuters) – Two Silicon Valley companies on Tuesday announced new tools that use artificial intelligence to generate images while tackling some of the thorniest legal issues surrounding the technology: copyrights and payments. Adobe Inc (ADBE.O) added artificial intelligence to some of its most popular software, including Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, to speed […]
Artificial intelligence systems that can generate images have been big news for the past year. OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion have dominated the headlines, and Google, Meta, and Microsoft have all announced features they are working on. But one huge name has been conspicuously absent: Adobe. Today, with the announcement of Firefly, which is […]
On Tuesday, Adobe introduced its own generative AI model family called Firefly, claiming—like young people tend to do in the throes of pubescence—it’s not like the other scrappy AI image generators. Instead of using training data dredged up from the internet, Adobe said its crafted its service only using images on its stock image site, […]
Adobe is entering the generative A.I. field, launching Firefly, which the company said it’ll integrate into its existing suite of products. The product will generate content brushes, variations on existing images, and potentially transform photos and videos based on user prompts. Firefly will launch as a public beta, with text-effect tools as the first available […]
Samantha Barnes’ latest exhibition Inkteriors aims to give familiar, household items a “large slathering of love”. “Inkteriors is a collection of work that began during lockdown, through drawing those items that we were using everyday,” explained Mrs Barnes, 51. “I found a whole new appreciation for all my kitchen paraphernalia!” Samantha Barnes’ lockdown art […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A group of artists are calling attention to two deadly intersections in the International District, and they’re doing it with paint. In the last few years, the U.S. Department of Transportation published data showing historically disadvantaged communities are often more dangerous for pedestrians. That reigns true for the International District in Albuquerque. […]
Underlying all the recent hype about AI, industry participants are engaging in furious debates about how to prepare for an AI that’s so powerful it can take control of itself. This idea of artificial general intelligence, or AGI, isn’t just dorm-room talk: Big name technologists like Sam Altman and Marc Andreessen talk about it, using […]
Published March 20, 2023 6:00 p.m. ET Click to Expand The artwork of Windsor, Ont. resident Kalvin Mercier will be on display and on sale at the Mackenzie Hall Cultural Centre in Sandwich town – but a year-and-a-half ago, it could be seen in some unexpected places. In the fall of 2021, Mercier was hit […]