Eh? Compared to the F-1 on the Saturn V's, Starship's Raptor 3 engine has a higher specific impulse, far higher thrust/weight ratio, and is good for 50+ flights rather than's the F-1's single flight -- yet it was designed and built with 1/20 the staff, in 1/3 the time, and for less than 1/1,000 the cost. Calculators and computers really are better than slide rules.
Not sure how you can "frame" this as any different than a filter. The fact that it's not trained on the assets it's changing it's a dead give away that it's practically acting like a filter. You mention how the hardware isn't capable of producing that level of detail, well the AI isn't magic, it's stealing assets from what it's learned. It's processing the rendering into individual pieces and taking what it knows as normal assets and applying lighting and shading to it. What results is in something photorealistic because it's just spitting out what it's learned. This is why we see facial features like lips being changed. It's not upgrading the lighting and shading on the original texture it's changing the entire thing to conform to what it thinks is "real", which is most likely real photographs. The fact of the matter is "photorealism" when it's not actually real is just art imitating life. If you've trained a model on real assets then it's just slopping those assets into place. The "Huge Step" this is taking is the massive amount of time it takes to take an drawing of what an artist wants someone to look like and redrawing it to photorealistic levels. Only the artist can make that jump because then who is filling the gaps?
That doesn't sound like the developers who are creating assets get a say, just the directors aka the business.
Which one?
Before Stone Age human species spent 4 hours a day in average to get food.
For those who can afford that.
Exactly.
I doubt some youngsters know the reference without asking ChatGPT (or other A.I. bot).
This is hilarious levels of missing the point.
And many of those human species hunted other humans, a time-saving shortcut to finding meat. Only about 57% survived even to age 15. They also had essentially no possessions, no medical or dental care; housing was a cold dank cave without furniture or lighting, and the usual night's entertainment was watching your father impregnate your sister. I'll stick with the modern lifestyle.
This isn't true. AI image and video generation works through diffusion models; the output is finished pixels, not 3D frames which need to be textured and shaded. An AI-only graphics card is certainly possible (though far beyond our computational means at present).
