AI gets a bad wrap. To be clear, that's generally for good reason—it's either being put to nefarious use, is coming fer our jobs, or is being used as some marketing gimmick with no actual relation to genuine artificial intelligence. But the most impressive thing I saw in my time at CES 2025, and throughout the Nvidia RTX Blackwell Editor's Day was AI-based. And it's a tangible advancement on the AI us gamers likely use every day: DLSS.
DLSS—or Deep Learning Super Sampling, to give it its full title—is Nvidia's upscaling technology used to deliver higher frame rates for our PC games (mostly because ray tracing sucked them down), and single-handedly kicked off the upscaling revolution that is now demanded of every single GPU and games console maker across the planet.
