My effort was in the absurd exaggeration of a clearly stupid argument, which obviously was successful enough that you considered the possibility of it being a joke in your initial reply. But then rather than moderate your reply accordingly to that fact you threw the principle of charity right in the trash and proceeded straight to insults. You're sad and disappointing, a prime example of everything wrong with modern discourse, and I'll leave you to it.

That's an interesting point I hadn't really considered. Thanks for the food for thought.

Indeed. A car windshield using this kind of technology for a google maps style overlay directly on the road instead of having to take your eyes off it could be incredibly helpful. Could also provide much better warning about surprise turn-only lanes coming out of nowhere in areas you aren't familiar with.

That said, I'm also imagining a future where marketers try to hijack such a display to force ads on you, or hackers setting off a light-show to try and cause accidents. The potential for abuse is terrifying, so I don't really know that it's worth exploring in that application even if we ever got the price down far enough. Could still be neat in lower risk areas like glasses for giving you directions to where you forgot your phone/keys, though.

I wish I could argue that point. I really do.

Perhaps so. I was hoping I had gone so ludicrously far enough over the top to make it obvious I was joking, but apparently I was mistaken.

No, that was my joke. But at the speed it just whizzed right over your head I can't help but wonder if we should consider that as a transmission vector, too. Must've pulled a lot of air along with it.

Ouch. I'd feel pretty bad about that one, except thankfully you've taken the crown from me in the very same reply by taking a post about SUVs driving a virus around seriously.

At first glance those numbers look convincing, but if you stop to think about how much higher the population density is in Japan you realize that the COVID was probably just getting stuck in all the people traffic and couldn't get around, whereas in America we have giant SUVs and spacious roads to cart it everywhere it wants to go at high speed!

Indeed. About 10 years ago I worked as a baker for Panera. One of the questions on the idiotic personality test has stuck with me to this day.

"Do you think there is hope for humanity?"

A little less after answering that question, and every day since. Keep hoping someday people will wake up and address how unbelievably stupid the hiring process has become, but no. Just keeps getting dumber.

Perfect! You can enjoy it with some caffeinated shampoo and the circle will be complete!

Status. It pretty much always comes back around to status. Proving your status as a member in good standing of whatever tribe through virtue signaling, or jockeying for a better status within said tribe. Humans have never escaped from tribalism, it just opened up along more blurred lines as methods of communication improved and new ideological borders were found or created.

CP2077 used JALI, a form of AI, to generate the facial animations. Nvidia uses AI in DLSS 3.5 uses to make ray tracing actually viable. Cascadeur is animation software that uses AI to generate plausible secondary motion for animations. Generative imaging solutions like the ones mentioned in the summary are frequently used by concept artists, or for storyboarding and the like. Image generators can also be used for upscaling textures quite effectively, or even generating brand new textures, including seamless ones. I expect there are plenty of other areas AI is in use in the game industry currently, but those are just a handful of the ones I know of off the top of my head as just some random asshole who pays attention, and just looking at gaming alone. A day may come - and soon, even - when we can replay a decades old game with modern graphics just by feeding it into a real-time AI renderer. Every post made here about how worthless AI is in a world where it's already being heavily applied across countless industries to great effect is just embarrassing.

If unwatchability is the metric for whether something is worth upscaling, I think the Holiday Special fits the bill quite nicely. ;)

I primarily agree with you, but take it from someone who worked for homeless services in Boston; it's not quite that simple to solve homelessness, not in America. Many of them have been stuck in the system so long they don't have a life to go back to outside of it, and many more are simply the victims of our atrocious mental health system being thrown out instead of given care. We tried setting the homeless up in apartments, and with jobs, and they mostly wound up back in the shelters because that's where all their friends and support networks are. I still think giving them homes is the answer long term, but the road to get there is less clear to me than it once was. Maybe if we had a quick turn around for the newly homeless and some follow-up support, perhaps we could at least prevent the same happening to them, and let the institutionalized people phase out over a longer period.

Would be nice if they solved it for movies, and frankly for video games too while they're at it. I want to see Steam, EA, GOG, et al compete on service, not content library.