Someone: Hey nvidia, make this look better!
Nvidia: i got this bro!
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“Between dealing with minority oppression, general uncertainty, and the rush to replace artists and those who pursued knowledge with machines, it feels like there is no future for me or my craft.”
Jesus...
I'm just gonna copy & paste my comment from another thread on the topic:
They don’t care. Nobody thinks this is a meaningful announcement, it’s just another pretense to justify AI as Nvidia and much of the entire US economy are so deeply sunken-cost invested in the “future AI ecosystem” that they just need any headlines to keep the machine churning. That’s what this is. Doesn’t mean it isn’t real and gamers won’t have to suffer with it, but no point of this is actually to make anyone’s gaming experience better in any way.
I don't think it's really aimed at gamers though. It's a tech demo for what their hardware can do. They say that it was run on a dedicated 5090 which means that to get the same result, you have to be running the game on a 5090 and have a second 5090 just for DLSS5.
This isn't meant for consumers. It's aimed at sectors of the market that want realtime gen AI processing of realtime footage, whether 3D generated or live action.
I think they're purposely taking the backlash from the gaming community, which they obviously don't care about anymore, to showcase the tech to a different market.
They did announce it at a games event
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I think the NVIDIA people just saw that it's «more realistic» and that was good enough for them. And, to be fair, it is.
But they are so drunk on AI that they missed the inconsistencies, the fake imaginary lights, the impossibility of controlling the result, the random addition of makeup, the fact it fucks up color balance and contrast...
And the COST !? Two 5090s when most people couldn't even afford one !? Even if the results were perfect, just forget about it ! No sane developer will spend any money on a feature less than 1% of their players will even experience, let alone enjoy.
From my experience - people who abuse AI don't see AI's cracks any longer. Their writing changes. How they see things.
It's like the plastic surgery people. They don't realize how weird and off-putting they look.
Yes ! They will unironically send you messages full of "it's not X, it's Y" and use lists everywhere when it's not appropriate at all 😅 It's amazing to me that they think they are still writing in a perfectly normal way
No sane person is going to spend that massive amount of money just to see what AI thinks their games could look like. The people who buy games want to see what the devs made them look like. Not what an AI thinks the devs made. Absolutley no one wants a middleman between the art and artist. As that's supposed to be you. We don't need AI there. That's dumb as shit, and expensive as shit to boot.
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When a product's most promosing feature is you can turn it off, you might have a problem.
It's not like anyone can turn it on anyway, thing need two 5090 to even function, and they're one of those buying all the ram which caused ram shortage, which mean no one can run it well. They're essentially making a tools for no one.
This is a step towards forcing people to stream games from some dedicated server. Once this becomes accepted (and it will, given enough time), and turning it off actively hurts the player experience, Amazon or someone will come around and say "hey, we have a lot of 5090s just lying around 👉👈", and people will start going for it.
I'm not okay with the doomerist take. Remember Amazon Luna and Google Stadia hit huge uptake failures and the latter completely died. Raytracing was vastly overhyped and ended up being turned off by most people, basically becoming a passing trend that rarely gets turned on for some niches.
GPU SKUs tend not to move around much. The ones used for cloud streaming are built for that purpose (if you ever played Geforce Now, then entered the video settings, it's some obscure server card). So it's doubtful they'd have anything "sitting around".
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My thoughts on this corpulent technology can be summed up by some brilliant thinkers.
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction." – E.F. Schumacher
"The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components of a computer system are those that aren't there." – Gordon Bell
"Keep it simple. A simple solution has elegance. It is the result of an exacting effort to understand the real problem and is recognized by its compelling sense of rightness. I stress this point because it contradicts the conventional view that power increases with complexity. Simplicity provides confidence, reliability, compactness, and speed." – Charles Moore
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Well, according Nvidia, they're all wrong, so who are you going to believe?
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What bothers me the most (besides the general AI slop thing) is that this shit changes the style of games. And imo better graphics alsmost never make a game better. I mean if the graphic is actually better…
I just want my games to be fun. Without 2x 5090's.
Thankfully there are plenty of developers that haven't drank the AI Kool aid and are still cranking out great games that have artistic integrity that didn't require even a single 5090.
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