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recently my friend’s comics professor told her that it’s acceptable to use gen Al for script- writing but not for art, since a machine can’t generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister’s screenwriting professor said that they can use gen Al for concept art and visualization, but that it won’t be able to generate a script that’s any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that Al can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.
It’s only ever the jobs we’re unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen Al will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don’t.
The only good AI I’ve come across is the one I use for denoising cycles renders in Blender3D, as that’s something that a human cannot reasonably do.
That’s the only scenario something like AI has any use as a “tool”; doing things humans cannot reasonably do.
Good news. There’s absolutely zero “intelligence” involved in computer functions doing math. No “AI” needed or detected as usual.
Yes, I know. It’s just a neural net. Still a calculator, just with more steps than a human can sift through. And they call that intelligence.
Unexpected blender tip. Thanks for that, hope it improves my render times 😉
Here’s another for you:
Play around with sample sizes and render tile sizes in the performance menu (same place where you find the denoising options).
Depending on your set-up, you can see a drastic improvement in render times by choosing smaller tile sizes. Sample size is also counted per render tile, so you could get away with very low sample sizes and have a completed render with an overall higher combined sample size.
Did not know that about the tile size. I never worried to much about performance as my previous laptop had plenty of grunt. But that blew up and now I’m on a 10 year old machine that was tired when it was new. I need everything I can get 😆