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  • While true, the way DLSS 2/3/4 does it is to take a bunch of low res renders of the game over time while wiggling the camera very slightly, and stitch them all together to generate a new, higher res image that very closely matches what the original would have looked like. The GenAI part is essentially just a very advanced temporal blending function that’s really good at detecting and smoothing out edges.

    DLSS 5 then runs an AI Instagram filter on top of the frame for “enhanced visuals”, because obviously we want our games to look like cheap AI slop.










  • One argument is that gambling requires the chance of a loss - you go to a casino, make a wager, buy a lottery ticket, bet on a horse race, you can lose your money and end up with nothing.

    But buy a Labubu, a Lego minifigure blind bag, MtG booster, or a video game lootbox, and while you don’t know exactly what, you will always get something in return for your money.

    Then again, “taking a gamble” is a term used for many things, like when you buy a used car without extensively checking the condition first, because you don’t know what exactly you are getting…





  • Most of the hardware manufacturing capacity is currently entirely focused on datacenter and AI stuff, be it GPUs or hard drives or RAM, because it currently seems to be a field with unlimited funding, but almost everyone can see it isn’t sustainable and won’t last for long.

    If you were a baker and suddenly making expensive cookies made you boatloads more money that baking bread, you wouldn’t spend time making a single loaf of bread until you could satisfy every cookie order first, no matter how many people were desperately in need of it.


  • AI code is like alternative medicine, it’s called that when it’s bad and doesn’t work. If it does, it’s just called code. And the issue isn’t using code made by AI, it’s when people who don’t know how to code think the AI does, and blindly do without checking. That’s very unlikely to happen with the Linux kernel, as the entire project is basically just one constant code review where it really doesn’t matter if bad code was written by a human or an AI.

    Even Torvalds has used AI to help with his projects, because it would be kinda silly not to.