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Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes

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Re: Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes

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Post by kderbyma »

anyfactor wrote: post #14

Tangent I wonder what happens to most people when they see innovation such as this. Over the years I have seen numerous mind-blowing AI achievement, which essentially feel like miracles. Yet literally after an hour I forget what I even saw. I don't find these innovations to have a lasting impression on me or on the internet except for the times when these solutions are released to the public for tinkering and they en…

just like most education is useless and mostly forgotten. Only when we can apply it will it be meaningful

Re: Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes

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Post by ineedasername »

olladecarne wrote: post #46
baron816 wrote: post #31

It would be really great to recreate loved ones after they have past in some sort of digital space. As I’ve gotten older, and my parents get older as well, I’ve been thinking more about what my life will be like in old age (and beyond too). I’ve also been thinking what I would want “heaven” to be. Eternal life doesn’t appeal to me much. Imagine living a quadrillion years. Even as a god, that would be miserable. That…

There's so many things we invent with good intentions but in the end go terribly wrong and I think this is one of those things. I think it's ok to mourn and remember the past, but moving on and accepting reality is important to a healthy life. Let's be real though, the startup that makes this but appeals to our worst instincts make bank. I can't imagine how much more messed up future generations will be as we keep ma…

"mourn and move on" is a somewhat Western concept of dealing with death. Plenty of cultures around the world have developed different practices, up to religious forms of ancestor worship.

Re: Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes

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Post by Animats »

What's new about this? That it's faster? People have been reconstructing 3D images from multiple photos for over a decade. The experimental work today is constructing a 3D image from a single photo, using a neural net to fill in a reasonable model of the stuff you can't see.

Re: Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes

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Post by p1esk »

the_af wrote: post #58
lowdest wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Imagine living a quadrillion years. Even as a god, that would be miserable. This seems very subjective, I don't agree at all.

Agreed it's subjective. That said, what would you do with your quadrillion year long lifespan, assuming you're healthy during it? It's way past everything you can do and learn, and cosmic level events are not what the human mind can perceive as they slowly unfold... I would like to live a couple thousand years though, as long as my loved ones get to be along for the ride. Though I wonder if my loved ones would eventu…

It seems like you assume you would remain human for a quadrillion years. Why? I'd assume a technology to upload yourself into a better substrate (one you have full control over) will appear within next few hundred years. From that point there are no limits on what you can do or become.

Re: Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes

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Post by cardiffspaceman »

the_af wrote: post #58
lowdest wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Imagine living a quadrillion years. Even as a god, that would be miserable. This seems very subjective, I don't agree at all.

Agreed it's subjective. That said, what would you do with your quadrillion year long lifespan, assuming you're healthy during it? It's way past everything you can do and learn, and cosmic level events are not what the human mind can perceive as they slowly unfold... I would like to live a couple thousand years though, as long as my loved ones get to be along for the ride. Though I wonder if my loved ones would eventu…

This extends to a cohort of people living thousands of years, having memories of each other to thousands of years in the past. Plus they all need beds.

Re: Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes

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Post by acdanger »

ineedasername wrote: post #62
olladecarne wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's so many things we invent with good intentions but in the end go terribly wrong and I think this is one of those things. I think it's ok to mourn and remember the past, but moving on and accepting reality is important to a healthy life. Let's be real though, the startup that makes this but appeals to our worst instincts make bank. I can't imagine how much more messed up future generations will be as we keep ma…

"mourn and move on" is a somewhat Western concept of dealing with death. Plenty of cultures around the world have developed different practices, up to religious forms of ancestor worship.

Possible the comment was directed towards a Western consumer.

Re: Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes

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Post by lowdest »

the_af wrote: post #58
lowdest wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Imagine living a quadrillion years. Even as a god, that would be miserable. This seems very subjective, I don't agree at all.

Agreed it's subjective. That said, what would you do with your quadrillion year long lifespan, assuming you're healthy during it? It's way past everything you can do and learn, and cosmic level events are not what the human mind can perceive as they slowly unfold... I would like to live a couple thousand years though, as long as my loved ones get to be along for the ride. Though I wonder if my loved ones would eventu…

I'm fond of my loved ones, but I also like creating new ones. I also would like to see very long term plans come to fruition. It seems very much like a "640K ought to be enough for anybody" problem.

Works of art that require thousands of lifetimes to complete. Deep understanding of the physical world. Exploring the universe. Much more.

Re: Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes

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Post by mkaic »

Animats wrote: post #63

What's new about this? That it's faster? People have been reconstructing 3D images from multiple photos for over a decade. The experimental work today is constructing a 3D image from a single photo, using a neural net to fill in a reasonable model of the stuff you can't see.

it's not just faster, it's extremely faster. They're achieving results that are better than SOTA in a fraction of the time. Wildly impressive work.

Re: Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes

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Post by willcipriano »

the_af wrote: post #58
lowdest wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Imagine living a quadrillion years. Even as a god, that would be miserable. This seems very subjective, I don't agree at all.

Agreed it's subjective. That said, what would you do with your quadrillion year long lifespan, assuming you're healthy during it? It's way past everything you can do and learn, and cosmic level events are not what the human mind can perceive as they slowly unfold... I would like to live a couple thousand years though, as long as my loved ones get to be along for the ride. Though I wonder if my loved ones would eventu…

> It's way past everything you can do and learn

Such arrogance, humanity isn't all that far beyond it's banging rocks together phase. We haven't even scratched the surface. There is so much more to learn.

Re: Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes

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Post by mkaic »

sennight wrote: post #18

I know that taste in comedy is seasonal (yes, there were a people in a time that thought vaudeville was the cat's pajamas), but has anyone ever greeted a pun with anything other than a pained sigh?

Idk, personally I find wordplay quite punny -- though I almost always try to greet the person who made the pun, and not the pun itself (they're abstract, inanimate concepts, pretty difficult to say "hello!" to)

:P

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