[HN Gopher] Nvidia Canvas: AI for creating realistic landscape i...
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       Nvidia Canvas: AI for creating realistic landscape images
        
       Author : pj3677
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2022-07-18 16:48 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | SilverBirch wrote:
       | Can I ask, was there an underlying reason that people deciding to
       | pursue this image generation task, or is this literally just the
       | result of throwing lots of tasks at different types of AI until
       | you finally find one it seems to do well?
       | 
       | I don't mean to denigrate this, the results are clearly
       | interesting, but I just don't understand what problem this
       | solves, it just seems to raise the noise floor on reality.
        
         | ActorNightly wrote:
         | Right now, there is a whole bunch of architectures that are
         | being discovered as being good for certain tasks.
         | 
         | At some point, there is going to be some sort of higher level
         | research for ML in terms of generating an architecture for a
         | particular task. And all this research is going to be used for
         | this.
        
         | ganoushoreilly wrote:
         | When you look at GAN, I could see the data from this endeavor
         | being used to improve it's output. I get it doesn't seem to
         | have a direct application, but I would suspect that it actually
         | is quite valuable to the media and entertainment space in the
         | long run.
        
       | axg11 wrote:
       | Nvidia's approach to software is really interesting, and
       | demonstrates that they have a hardware culture through and
       | through.
       | 
       | They could turn Canvas into a web app and charge a monthly
       | subscription. Alternatively they could go the OpenAI
       | GPT-3/DALL-E-2 route and give it away as a web app or API to
       | generate a huge potential customer list. Instead, they're only
       | interested in technology demonstrations.
       | 
       | I'm not arguing that this is a good _or_ bad thing. It's just
       | interesting to watch a company drive one of the greatest
       | innovations humankind has ever developed (AI), yet fail to
       | capitalize on the resulting value creation due to a hardware
       | focused culture.
        
         | htrp wrote:
         | They are selling RTX's via Canvas.... no more no less.
        
           | axg11 wrote:
           | Exactly - they could think bigger than selling hardware
           | alone.
        
       | trafficante wrote:
       | Canvas remains my favorite way of demonstrating both the
       | potential and the danger of AI to Boomers, parents, grandparents,
       | and just non-techies in general.
       | 
       | Even the most computer illiterate of people these days are able
       | to scribble an MS Paint landscape and have it (usually) turn into
       | a gorgeous seascape or mountain vista.
       | 
       | First program/app since maybe WordLens (that old iOS real time
       | translation overlay app) that gets consistent "wows" out of
       | virtually everybody.
        
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