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BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4

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Re: BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4

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Going to be curious where this goes. As someone who hobby models I get the impression there are certain things modelers would LOVE to be able to just hand to an AI (feel like I saw someone on twitter saying they'd love for it to handle UV unwrapping but I may be thinking of the wrong task).

Any time we can get a program to do the repetitive work that is time consuming but not interesting/creative that is a huge win.

Re: BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4

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Until We started to see LLMs, and the tools that can be created with them, I doubted the possibility of Star Trek's Voice command system. Asking for the computer to clarify some concept, or filter and reduce data sets based on arbitrary data was pure science fiction. Seeing something like this makes me think that the arbitrary holodeck commands "Paris, 1950's, rainy afternoon" is suddenly not a challenging part of th…

A prompt like that already can generate something great using stable diffusion/mid journey. Very exciting indeed that LLMs are now similarly so capable.

Re: BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4

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I know this tech is terrifying to actual 3D artist who don’t want be a “prompt engineer”, but as someone who has never used Blender, I think its cool that I can create something using tools like this and use them in my projects, ex background animation on a website hero section.

It just raises the bar so that 3D artists who are only capable of reproducing the same boring things they saw in YouTube tutorials are no longer considered proficient. The more I think about this trend, the more I think it might be good. Bootcamp devs are no longer good enough for junior roles since a GPT could replace them. Digital media people who learnt via YouTube and have no real talent are no longer skilled eno…

How do you get senior people when juniors no longer have careers?

Re: BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4

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I'm glad it is not just me who thinks I need to "thank" chatGPT or encourage it, e.g.: "Great, now do .... " "Great, now do ... ".

Its not 'thanking', its positive signal that GPT's previous outputs were correct, so it should continue doing whatever it was doing. If you say no/bad etc, then GPT will try other approaches.

Re: BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4

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I know this tech is terrifying to actual 3D artist who don’t want be a “prompt engineer”, but as someone who has never used Blender, I think its cool that I can create something using tools like this and use them in my projects, ex background animation on a website hero section.

It just raises the bar so that 3D artists who are only capable of reproducing the same boring things they saw in YouTube tutorials are no longer considered proficient. The more I think about this trend, the more I think it might be good. Bootcamp devs are no longer good enough for junior roles since a GPT could replace them. Digital media people who learnt via YouTube and have no real talent are no longer skilled eno…

This isn't how it will play out though. At first chess AIs got enough to beat unskilled players. They they were good enough to beat intermediate players. Then they challenged the grandmasters. Today no human, no matter how long they practise or how hard they train will ever get close to beating an AI at chess.

Your assumption that this raises the bar for human 3D artists is correct today, but it won't be long before human 3D artists are seen as much slower and less competent than AI artists, and there will be no going back.

Re: BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4

#27

I know this tech is terrifying to actual 3D artist who don’t want be a “prompt engineer”, but as someone who has never used Blender, I think its cool that I can create something using tools like this and use them in my projects, ex background animation on a website hero section.

I use blender a lot. I know what the api can do. I'm not terrified. Getting anything significant done will still take real work/knowledge because the number of potential 'parameters' of what you can do/make requires that you have the language to describe what you want. Having the posession of that language and knowing how to use blender is a very positive correlation.

Re: BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4

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I know this tech is terrifying to actual 3D artist who don’t want be a “prompt engineer”, but as someone who has never used Blender, I think its cool that I can create something using tools like this and use them in my projects, ex background animation on a website hero section.

I don't think this is "terrifying" to 3D artists any more than github copilot is terrying to us haha, I'm not sure why we engineers have this tendency of imagining every other industry as being populated by superstitious peasants from the dark ages who fear new tools. In my experience the vast majority of people are excited about GPT including artists.

I don't know, maybe I am one of those "superstitious peasants from the dark ages who fear new tools", but I'm increasingly terrified of GPT-4 and future iterations of it as applied to the industry I work with (i.e. software). It does seem to threaten to suddenly eliminate all the interesting parts of the job, a good chunk of openings, and to significantly reduce salaries for the openings that remain - all at the same time, and rather suddenly.

Re: BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4

#29

I know this tech is terrifying to actual 3D artist who don’t want be a “prompt engineer”, but as someone who has never used Blender, I think its cool that I can create something using tools like this and use them in my projects, ex background animation on a website hero section.

Isn’t being a good boss kind of like being a good prompt engineer?

If so, then this means the good boss will soon no longer need employees, as the LLMs will deliver better results faster and cheaper.

Re: BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It just raises the bar so that 3D artists who are only capable of reproducing the same boring things they saw in YouTube tutorials are no longer considered proficient. The more I think about this trend, the more I think it might be good. Bootcamp devs are no longer good enough for junior roles since a GPT could replace them. Digital media people who learnt via YouTube and have no real talent are no longer skilled eno…

How do you get senior people when juniors no longer have careers?

Junior software developers will still have careers, they'll just have to learn a slightly different skillset that involves more reviewing of code, like a senior developer already does.

Before sometime hits merge, they need to understand if the code meets all requirements, and it doesn't really matter who or what wrote the code in the PR.

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