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> Anthropomorphize computer programs and invent a BS way of injecting a real human into a computer and Tron is what you get. It's complete nonsense!

It’s true but some tech innovations now do stuff we thought dumb and/or impossible like in Blade Runner and the “enhanced” tech meme. Fast track to today, it’s not the full thing but we thought that even being able to “enhance” a picture even once was stupid. Now you have ML model doing just that and some companies selling this tools to photographs and stuff. It’s crazy

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Although, due to the way ML does that image enhancing it wouldn't actually work for any of the things it's used for in the show (since we still can't create information out of nothing).

Ya it’s true now there are some chances to do some tiny tiny steps forward to that by studying the light in the picture that is bouncing. I remember finding a video where they will beam lights against a wall and be able to generate a (very dirty) picture a hidden playing card by seeing how the light bounce (colors, angles, etc…). Maybe in a future where camera with a 100 times better image quality will be standard. If I find it will post it.

It’s like reverse engineering the light.

I just imagined a Spaceballs-esque scene where they shout "Enhance!" and the resulting image is one if those crazy AI generated pictures where everything morphs into some semblance of a cat-but-not-really.

I think a better example of really cool "Bladerunner enhance" tech has a lot less to do with ML and more to do with some of the interesting RAW formats our cameras today are putting out. It's easier than ever for the cameras to capture multi-frames at once even for a "still" shot between advancements in multi-frame compression and expansions in general purpose storage space. It's really interesting to see what Pros with pro tools can do to things like adjust lighting or focus/bokeh in an editing app days/weeks/months after a photo was "taken".

ML is often involved with the non-RAW formats to make some of those focus/lighting adjustments for us non-Pros, but watching what Pros can do to enhance photos that ML cannot if they get access to the RAWs before the MLs toss those files is sometimes incredibly impressive today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_sensing ?

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_field_camera ,

imagine they were using that.

Ah I think that’s what I was trying to find!

That is a pseudo-enhance, because you can’t fix the thermodynamic issue of not having enough information to actually enhance.

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