The tech will improve to far exceed the capabilities of a game engine. Real time improvisation and infinite choices, scope, etc.
It makes no sense when people say AI can't do this or that. It will do it next week.
It makes no sense when people say AI can't do this or that. It will do it next week.
There have been musings for a while now that 3D rendering is going to switch from “lay down the scene’s albedo & specular parameters then do the lighting pass” to “lay down the scene’s latent parameters and then do the diffusion pass”.
Recently, the advances in “real time AI world models” have been coming ridiculously fast.
Put these together and it’s no stretch at all imagining a game built by having artists go nuts doing whatever they want with whatever Maya can handle as long as they also make proxy geometry of trivial complexity that can be conceptually associated with the final renders. Train the AI on the association. Render the proxy geometry the old fashioned way. AI that up in real time to the associated Maya-final-render approximation.
It’s not going to happen this week. But, in 5 years? Somebody’s gonna pull it off.
in a tech demo, sure. In a real product? I doubt it. We have neat tech demos from 20 years ago that amounted to not much, because implementing it in a real business product was unviable, unweildy, or didn't meet standards.
There's a lot to get away with with demos. Not so much in a product you want to sell. Much less so for a deluxe product with a bunch of competition like games.
So full self driving vecicles will be finally ready next week then? Great to hear, though to be honest, I remain sceptical.
Self-driving cars are "here"... until someone adds another requirement.
Yes, Waymo can today drive around extremely dense car-friendly cities that are scanned and mapped in great detail weekly... They also still have to have remote human intervention all the time, and are freaked out by traffic cones being placed on the hood. I grew up in Indonesia and that's where I learned to drive, and trust me, if Waymo is ever able to navigate 100 meters on any road in Jakarta I'll happily concede and consider self-driving to be a solved problem.
In fact, I am not arguing that self-driving cars are perfect or global. I am pointing out how people keep changing the definition of "solved" which makes it look like the finish line keeps moving.
We do have what parent said, it is a reality. It is also the reality that it is not perfect, but somehow the latter is made to minimize or completely dismiss the former.
Those are the goalposts and they've been in the same spot for quite a while now.
I just do not think that your response is a valid response to a fact ("Waymos are driving themselves around several cities right now").
The failure mode for getting a self-driving car right is grave. The failure mode for rendering game graphics imperfectly is to require a bit of suspension of disbelief (it's not a linear spectrum given the famous uncanney valley, etc., I'm aware). Games already have plenty of abstract graphics, invisible walls, and other cludges that require buy-in from users. It's a lot easier to scale that wall.
The statement was one of capability. There are some things that the tech is flatly not capable of, and that it will take time to develop the capability of. Even if there were no safety concerns at all and we lived in a cotton candy bubble world, self driving cars still have hard failure modes. The tech is not capable, and will not develop the capability next week, either.
The point being made is that the tech is moving fast, at least according to the marketing, but a revolution is not happening ever week. "This is the worst it'll ever be" is an increasingly tired refrain when things seem to be stagnating more than ever. The mentioned behavior will take longer a good amount of time, it's silly to wait around for it when it is not unlikely it may never come.
The problem with these statements is language has so much context implicit in it. "driving around on their own" to me means with zero active oversight. "driving around" to me means not just in a small set of city streets, but as a replacement for human driving (eg anywhere a vehicle can physically fit). Obviously to you it means other things, but it's what makes these conversations and statements of fact challenging.
Tesla's have >1 but they are not really self-driving, but more "100% human supervised self-driving."
You're gonna have to break the light barrier before thinking about how to do real time Ai rendering at this rate.