Nvidia Canvas: AI for creating realistic landscape images
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Re: Nvidia Canvas: AI for creating realistic landscape images
#2Can I ask, was there an underlying reason that people deciding to pursue this image generation task, or is this literally just the result of throwing lots of tasks at different types of AI until you finally find one it seems to do well?
I don't mean to denigrate this, the results are clearly interesting, but I just don't understand what problem this solves, it just seems to raise the noise floor on reality.
Re: Nvidia Canvas: AI for creating realistic landscape images
#3Can I ask, was there an underlying reason that people deciding to pursue this image generation task, or is this literally just the result of throwing lots of tasks at different types of AI until you finally find one it seems to do well? I don't mean to denigrate this, the results are clearly interesting, but I just don't understand what problem this solves, it just seems to raise the noise floor on reality.
When you look at GAN, I could see the data from this endeavor being used to improve it's output. I get it doesn't seem to have a direct application, but I would suspect that it actually is quite valuable to the media and entertainment space in the long run.
Re: Nvidia Canvas: AI for creating realistic landscape images
#4Canvas remains my favorite way of demonstrating both the potential and the danger of AI to Boomers, parents, grandparents, and just non-techies in general.
Even the most computer illiterate of people these days are able to scribble an MS Paint landscape and have it (usually) turn into a gorgeous seascape or mountain vista.
First program/app since maybe WordLens (that old iOS real time translation overlay app) that gets consistent “wows” out of virtually everybody.
Re: Nvidia Canvas: AI for creating realistic landscape images
#5Can I ask, was there an underlying reason that people deciding to pursue this image generation task, or is this literally just the result of throwing lots of tasks at different types of AI until you finally find one it seems to do well? I don't mean to denigrate this, the results are clearly interesting, but I just don't understand what problem this solves, it just seems to raise the noise floor on reality.
Right now, there is a whole bunch of architectures that are being discovered as being good for certain tasks.
At some point, there is going to be some sort of higher level research for ML in terms of generating an architecture for a particular task. And all this research is going to be used for this.
Re: Nvidia Canvas: AI for creating realistic landscape images
#6Nvidia's approach to software is really interesting, and demonstrates that they have a hardware culture through and through.
They could turn Canvas into a web app and charge a monthly subscription. Alternatively they could go the OpenAI GPT-3/DALL-E-2 route and give it away as a web app or API to generate a huge potential customer list. Instead, they're only interested in technology demonstrations.
I'm not arguing that this is a good _or_ bad thing. It's just interesting to watch a company drive one of the greatest innovations humankind has ever developed (AI), yet fail to capitalize on the resulting value creation due to a hardware focused culture.
Re: Nvidia Canvas: AI for creating realistic landscape images
#7Nvidia's approach to software is really interesting, and demonstrates that they have a hardware culture through and through. They could turn Canvas into a web app and charge a monthly subscription. Alternatively they could go the OpenAI GPT-3/DALL-E-2 route and give it away as a web app or API to generate a huge potential customer list. Instead, they're only interested in technology demonstrations. I'm not arguing th…
They are selling RTX's via Canvas.... no more no less.
Re: Nvidia Canvas: AI for creating realistic landscape images
#8Nvidia's approach to software is really interesting, and demonstrates that they have a hardware culture through and through. They could turn Canvas into a web app and charge a monthly subscription. Alternatively they could go the OpenAI GPT-3/DALL-E-2 route and give it away as a web app or API to generate a huge potential customer list. Instead, they're only interested in technology demonstrations. I'm not arguing th…
They are selling RTX's via Canvas.... no more no less.
Exactly - they could think bigger than selling hardware alone.
Re: Nvidia Canvas: AI for creating realistic landscape images
#9Re: Nvidia Canvas: AI for creating realistic landscape images
#10Can I ask, was there an underlying reason that people deciding to pursue this image generation task, or is this literally just the result of throwing lots of tasks at different types of AI until you finally find one it seems to do well? I don't mean to denigrate this, the results are clearly interesting, but I just don't understand what problem this solves, it just seems to raise the noise floor on reality.
Probably an AI that could help us re watch our dreams?