Mandag aften løftede Nvidia sløret for deres nye DLSS 5-teknologi. Det, der har vækt mest opsigt, er integrationen af AI til at forbedre det visuelle udtryk - især ansigtsdetaljer - en udvikling, som virksomheden mener er det næste store spring fremad i gaming-verdenen. For at illustrere dette har de udgivet en kort video, der viser, hvordan spil kan løftes med den nye teknologi. Du kan se videoen herunder.
Nvidias grundlægger og CEO Jensen Huang kommenterer, hvad han mener er et kæmpe fremskridt:
"Twenty-five years after NVIDIA invented the programmable shader, we are reinventing computer graphics once again. DLSS 5 is the GPT moment for graphics — blending handcrafted rendering with generative AI to deliver a dramatic leap in visual realism while preserving the control artists need for creative expression.
Computer graphics comes to life, now what did we do? We fused controllable 3D graphics, the ground truth of virtual worlds, the structured data of virtual worlds, and the generated worlds. We combined 3D graphics with generative AI and probabilistic computing.
One of them is completely predictive, the other one, probabilistic yet highly realistic. The content is beautiful as well as controllable. This concept of fusing structured information and generative AI will repeat itself in one industry after another. Structured data is the foundation of trustworthy AI."
Selvom teknologien uden tvivl er imponerende, ville det være en stramning at sige, at internettet er imponeret. Tværtimod har kritikken været massiv. Nvidias "forbedrede" ansigter ligner sjældent det, spiludviklerne oprindeligt har forestillet sig, og bærer desværre en slående lighed med den typisk tamme og fantasiløse stil, man får, når man beder Grok eller ChatGPT om at "forbedre" et billede eller gengive en smuk person.
Vi har scrollet gennem utallige opslag i kommentarfelter og på sociale medier, og kan konstatere, at stort set alle, der har taget sig tid til at kommentere, er rungende negative over for det, de betragter som intetsigende, automatiseret slop.
Her er et udpluk af reaktionerne fra YouTube:
- "Now your game can look like an ai generated image wow"
- "no way this isn't an april fools joke"
- "We died in 2020 and are in hell right now"
- "looks like it completely changes what the devs originally designed. beyond weird."
- "My first impression is the same as the comments...at least for faces it looks like they overlaid an AI beauty filter."
- "Looks like snapchat filters."
- "Why is she suddenly wearing lipstick?!? Wtf."
- "This is absolutely horrendous"
- "This is just straight up changing the art and character design to something resembling an AI "beautification" filter. It looks fucking terrible."
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