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Early reactions to Nvidia's DLSS 5 were swift and skeptical, with some observers likening the technology to an Instagram-style filter applied over gameplay footage. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang refuted the allegations, but subsequent clarifications have helped outline how the system actually works – and where it can fall short.

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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure why this is such a big deal. It's only going to affect the 7 or 8 people in the world that can afford the 2 top of the line graphics cards and the RAM required to run it.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

This is a culmination of years in which gamers kept getting ignored when they ask for some consideration to their needs like more memory, better Linux drivers, and smaller form factors. Instead we get hit with their server farm AI slop runoff and told this is what we want. To me it's an insult for wanting something that's more specialized to gaming and graphical work rather than some LLM platform.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Ahh,I get it now. It's not about them creating something that sucks, it's about them creating something that sucks instead of something else we've been asking for that would be actually useful. Thanks for filling in the missing piece.

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Instead of doing this bullshit, can we just have regular DLSS be actually good? I can't stand turning it on for my handheld because it's a blurry, smeary mess as is.

[–] Snoopey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You might be thinking of FSR? I don't know of any handhelds that support DLSS as they all use AMD hardware, and they also don't support the latest AMD RDNA tech so you're such with crappy FSR 2 most of the time which is indeed a horrible blurry glitchy mess.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 points 54 minutes ago* (last edited 53 minutes ago)

The Switch 2 has it since it’s the only Nvidia handheld as far as I know.

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 71 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

So they have this nice 3D card, which they had a hand in inventing and "perfecting" to render the entire 3D scene in beautiful, stunning detail, and then another card with AI instructions that totally ignores all of that just happened, takes a screenshot and puts a filter on it in real time basically. What a massive waste of power and computation.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)
[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 124 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Best comment about this was from a video posted yesterday:

Nvidia keeps saying that this tech is still a work in progress, yet they made the decision to release a demo in its current state...

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Yes because it makes people talk about that instead of their love affair with Palantir and their passionate support for Israel.

Whoever decided to showcase DLSS5 in it‘s current form is probably getting a raise and a nice bonus for this diversion.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 105 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

GenAI is the ultimate demoware. Bro, it’ll get better. Just look how good it is now.

[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 34 points 9 hours ago

Just one more data center, bro! Promise!

[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 45 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

As microslop was constantly saying last year, LLMs and their ilk are a product in search of an application.

Every company is desperate to find anything these garbage machines can do well enough to validate the trillion or so dollars pumped into them.

Late edit: Also, Salesforce is literally mostly about barely functional tech with shiny demos. Thats why there is a consulting and customization industry worrth at least 10s if not 100s of billions that supports just their software.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 11 hours ago

That's clearly the insane part, like okay it can be a bit helpful in this or that scenario, but they spent like every person on earth would want to pay 250 euros a month for it...

[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

Well, if it isn't little Lisa Slopson! The tech bros answer to a QUESTION NO ONE ASKED!?

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 hours ago
[–] phar@lemmy.world -1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Demos are very often an example of in progress works or technology. That literally happens all the time.

[–] Epzillon@lemmy.world 34 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Doesnt really matter IMO. If you have known bugs and flaws you dont showcase those, or if they are present in the showcase you atleast adress them and show what is to be expected upon release. NVIDIA just flat out didnt care. As soon as motion increases the artefacting is crazy. How do you even decide that this is remotely good enough for a demo? 

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 24 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Nvidia hears people like motion blur and AI slop so they put some AI slop in their motion blur.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 hours ago

Ugh. "Everyone is doing BLOOM, lets also do BLOOM but at +150% more!"

I remember that, motion blur came after and now I guess ai 😓

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 12 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

:3

PS: The hallucinations are artistic freedom 😂

"Hallucinations" are an inherent part of the programming.

It is literally impossible to prevent them. The systems work on building the fuzzy average response to a query via complex statistics. There is no thinking or creativity.

[–] phar@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Okay but that is not what the person said or what the poster above quoted as being the best part. I'm not commenting on the overall performance I'm just saying that demos very often are exactly what that sentence implies they shouldn't be.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 29 points 13 hours ago

And yet, they chose to demo a broken technology with obvious bugs and flaws. The demos from tech companies are supposed to make people excited, not recoil in disgust.

This isn't some tiny company, either. It's fucking nVidia, who supposedly has the money to create a good demo.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 11 hours ago

Further confirming this is not meant to ever be used by actual gamers, and instead exists only to advertise real time genAI modification to existing video media.

[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 33 points 13 hours ago

img2img slop filter for every frame in real time. Great job nvidia what a dumb waste of resources.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 14 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

Wasn't DLSS working fine before, wtf did they do to it?

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago

The waste is the point.

It needs to be more expensive, because that can be leveraged for higher valuations.

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 28 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Haven't you heard? Everything must contain generative AI now.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

DLSS stands for "deep learning super scaling." It was always gen-ai. Those extra details weren't being revealed, they were being generated.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 14 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 16 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Wtf did they do to it.

AI

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

But it was working fine and probably cheaper, this makes it worse. Where the fuck is QA?

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 21 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Where the fuck is QA?

They replaced them with AI

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 8 points 11 hours ago

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