Looks like after about thirty years, we've come full circle and returned to POV-Ray. ;P
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
#152Given that Blender itself managed to bork my Blend file to the point where I had to delete the offending mesh to shop it from crashing just recently, I would recommend everyone using this to, at the very least, put a version control system in place when working on anything remotely important.
Re: BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4
#153This is getting closer to the system I've been saying I wanted since the 1980s, whenever people said "what could you use a faster computer for anyway?" It's a system where you can talk to it and make a photo realistic movie. The example I always use is, you're sitting at the computer, looking at a blank screen and you say something like: "Ok opening scene. Dockside, London, early 19th century. Early evening. There ar…
What the existence of this may cause over time is the erosion of movies as "special" things. When everyone can make movies, they'll reduce to an emotional expression in a communication, much like choosing an emoji or gif is when augmenting a chat.
Re: BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4
#154Anyone else take a look at that Blender plugin's code? There is a hell of a lot more than just communicating with OpenAI in there.
The code itself isn't terribly long, it seems the author committed a bunch of extra libraries.
Re: BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4
#155This is getting closer to the system I've been saying I wanted since the 1980s, whenever people said "what could you use a faster computer for anyway?" It's a system where you can talk to it and make a photo realistic movie. The example I always use is, you're sitting at the computer, looking at a blank screen and you say something like: "Ok opening scene. Dockside, London, early 19th century. Early evening. There ar…
What the existence of this may cause over time is the erosion of movies as "special" things. When everyone can make movies, they'll reduce to an emotional expression in a communication, much like choosing an emoji or gif is when augmenting a chat.
I definitely agree with that. Everyone will have their movie that they want you to watch and you won’t wanna watch them because they usually suck. But some of them will be good and that’s the way it is now with music too so I still think it’s a good thing to enable more creative expression.
Re: BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4
#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is such a vague comment that it's pretty near impossible to reply to in a very constructive way. By my estimation it seems probable that we'll end up in the near future with some Jira integration that has an "auto fix" button on tickets. Possibly PMs or managers will be empowered to replace a large chunk of work that is currently done by people like me... and these things are only the beginning! If you were thin…
My point is that if a machine can write more or less any program, then the artistic merit of programming falls away completely. It's instead replaced by a slurry of incomprehensible nonsense that simply works for some reason.
The reason being tests/constraints specified by someone designing the software.
Re: BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4
#157Famous quote: "Wouldn't it be nice if our machines were smart enough to allow programming in natural language?". Well, natural languages are most suitable for their original purposes, viz. to be ambiguous in, to tell jokes in and to make love in, but most unsuitable for any form of even mildly sophisticated precision. And if you don't believe that, either try to read a modern legal document and you will immediately s…
Natural language doesn't NEED to be precise- that's what theory of mind is for, to allow efficient inference of meaning from objectively-ambiguous communication.
It's not perfect, but LLMs appear capable of making the same kind of inference, sufficiently that it'll inevitably be possible to program in natural language sooner or later with minimal or no manual double-checking
Re: BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4
#158Earlier 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…
>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. That is of course, until GPT-6 surpasses them.
The change of pace isn't regarded in these what-ifs usually:
Why should someone hire someone experienced when they could just cruise on patchwork solutions made by inexperienced contributors using an AI model until the next gen of an AI model is released?
Can the experienced person really outpace the model development in terms of innovation? Is it worth trying to innovate in a niche?
Re: BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4
#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
These systems sure hallucinate text.
Yes, because models like midjourny tiny compared to LLMs like GPT. I'm pretty sure there's a good hackernews discussion on this that occurred recently, but with all the AI talk I can't find it. But really we need a lot less information to make a reasonable city, then the amount of information we need to make billboards and signs make sense. I don't think Midjourny wants to pay 10+ million dollars to have their model…
> then the amount of information we need to make billboards and signs make sense.
Subsequently, this applies to posters, letters, newspapers, and other types of text-heavy images, ultimately reducing the language modeling problem to an image generation problem.
Re: BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
What makes us think that encoding all functionality using natural language is somehow more compact than using code? Sure, describing a website with a button is easy, but I don’t quite see how you would describe Kubernetes or a device driver without writing a book in “legalese”. Or try formulating a math proof with natural language.
Who said you need to need to describe Kubernetes? "Make my programs work at any scale". Boom
That just.. doesn’t work that way.
Edit: besides, if it could work you lose the competitive edge. I could describe a much faster more cost effective system which the machine can implement. And we are off to the races again..