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Re: The Steam Deck OLED spot ad was made with Steam Deck OLEDs

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Post by Satam »

iAMkenough wrote: post #79
Satam wrote: post #57

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It's why AI-generated movie shots would make a lot of sense. Hollywood spends billions of dollars, builds and blows up elaborate sets, and hires 100,000s of thousands of people... just to be able to have pixels move in a pleasing way. How much of that will be cut out when we just go straight to generating pixels? CGI goes in that general direction but it's still very labor intensive.

This is a surface-level argument that could be applied to literally every industry if you trivialize the product produced. For example: NASA spends billions on research and development just to be able to push a rocket upwards into space? How much of that will be cut out when we just go straight to AI-generated plans and schematics? It only makes “a lot of sense” if you’re willing to compromise your standards and elim…

I thought about this as well but I think research activities and such might be qualitatively different, at least for now. Movies are merely looking to please our senses, on the other hand, researchers look for truths and facts about the world. It's okay to have movie visuals not based on reality, but it's usually not okay to have non-factual research.

Also, no one is going to force actors and movie studios to go full AI and those who wish can stay with the old paradigm. It will be up to customers to decide where their money goes. However, if AI allows for the same or higher quality and more creative freedom at lower costs, I'm pretty sure the old ways will get outcompeted.

Re: The Steam Deck OLED spot ad was made with Steam Deck OLEDs

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Post by Satam »

Rovoska wrote: post #72
Satam wrote: post #57

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It's why AI-generated movie shots would make a lot of sense. Hollywood spends billions of dollars, builds and blows up elaborate sets, and hires 100,000s of thousands of people... just to be able to have pixels move in a pleasing way. How much of that will be cut out when we just go straight to generating pixels? CGI goes in that general direction but it's still very labor intensive.

Only on hn would you have someone miss the point of art this hard. That's not art anymore, that's not creative.

Would it be wrong and not art if one wouldn't need a $100 million budget to fully execute their vision?

And art is a term that's quite ambiguous and often means different things to different people. I think you would agree that a lot of people consume movies simply as entertainment. From that perspective, it matters less where the data about pixels came from. This is coming from a person who loves movies, artsy, not artsy, and everything in between.

Re: The Steam Deck OLED spot ad was made with Steam Deck OLEDs

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Post by Satam »

sph wrote: post #64
Satam wrote: post #57

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It's why AI-generated movie shots would make a lot of sense. Hollywood spends billions of dollars, builds and blows up elaborate sets, and hires 100,000s of thousands of people... just to be able to have pixels move in a pleasing way. How much of that will be cut out when we just go straight to generating pixels? CGI goes in that general direction but it's still very labor intensive.

Calm down, Satam. Unless that's satire. But I'm not sure it is.

Rereading what I wrote... It does sound like satire - but no, I'm serious haha. If the tech is able to deliver without compromises in quality, I think the transition would be inevitable.

Re: The Steam Deck OLED spot ad was made with Steam Deck OLEDs

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Post by dag11 »

Satam wrote: post #83
sph wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Calm down, Satam. Unless that's satire. But I'm not sure it is.

Rereading what I wrote... It does sound like satire - but no, I'm serious haha. If the tech is able to deliver without compromises in quality, I think the transition would be inevitable.

Inevitable sure, but sad.

Re: The Steam Deck OLED spot ad was made with Steam Deck OLEDs

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Post by JCharante »

aldanor wrote: post #68
Satam wrote: post #57

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It's why AI-generated movie shots would make a lot of sense. Hollywood spends billions of dollars, builds and blows up elaborate sets, and hires 100,000s of thousands of people... just to be able to have pixels move in a pleasing way. How much of that will be cut out when we just go straight to generating pixels? CGI goes in that general direction but it's still very labor intensive.

... and taking it one step further, humans spend millions of hours watching those shows and movies, just to be able to consume movements of some pixels and parse it into some storylines. What an inefficient way. How much time will be saved when we go straight to computers watching that content for us and summarising it in 140 characters.

I’ve actually gotten hooked on watching movie recaps on youtube. Even boring mid tier movies are interesting when they’re condensed to ten minutes. It also exposes me to Spanish and Russian movies, because the narrator recaps everything in English, and I don’t have to pay for any subscriptions anymore.

Re: The Steam Deck OLED spot ad was made with Steam Deck OLEDs

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Post by account42 »

shortrounddev2 wrote: post #76
gumballindie wrote: post #19

I am continuously amazed at how awesome valve is and what awesome products it makes. Also steam supporting linux single handedly advanced adoption of that os. Apparently the best types of companies are those founded by deeply technical people, still owned and run by them, no venture capital. In an ideal world we would favour such companies over toxic ones.

Personally I've been pretty disappointed with valve over the last 10-15 years because of the almost complete lack of output on their games and the way they abandon others (TF2). They'd rather squeeze more money out of steam than release new games

Considering how they turn the games they do maintain into casinos, maybe that's for the best.

Re: The Steam Deck OLED spot ad was made with Steam Deck OLEDs

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Post by mdhen »

Kerbonut wrote: post #58
mdhen wrote: post #14

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They have made a number of changes to makebit easier to fix, not sure about the screen though.

> makebit I make this same mistake on iPhone all the time. Is it just me or does Apple need to step up their keyboard and autocorrect game?

so this was actually on an open source android keyboard (florisboard) which is made by one guy and does, in fact, have terrible auto correct. hilarious that it is in the same league as apple.

Re: The Steam Deck OLED spot ad was made with Steam Deck OLEDs

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Post by rstat1 »

eptcyka wrote: post #43
rstat1 wrote: post #33

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No it isn't. Android is as much a Linux distro as any other.

Android is a Linux distribution unlike any other. They use a completely different framework for drivers for hardware, they have their own patches for binder and other things that see no use outside of Android and will never get upstreamed. They have their own libc which is not used in any other distro. Very little of the work that has been done to make Linux work better on Androids has benefited the rest of the Linux…

Binder has been part of the mainline kernel for quite a while.

Also drivers for things on Android are for the most part done by third party manufactures and so its up to those third parties to upstream them. No different than any other driver used on more generic PC or server HW.

Also you realize that there's like 3 or 4 different libc projects for Linux distros to use right? Bionic isn't special in that regard.

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